Gary Genosko

When Technocultures Collide

Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, "CrackBerry" users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, and chess geeks. The dangers and joys of struggles for autonomy are underlined in studies of RIM's BlackBerry and Julian Assange's WikiLeaks website.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 135mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781554588978
• ISBN-10: 1554588979
• Artikelnr.: 36958329

Autorenporträt

Gary Genosko is a professor in and director of the Communication Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He held a Canada Research Chair in Technoculture from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of Remodelling Communication: From WWII to the WWW (2012), Félix Guattari: A Critical Introduction (2009), and co-author, with Scott Thompson, of Punched Drunk: Alcohol, Surveillance and the LCBO (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for
Autonomy by Gary Genosko
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Beyond Hands Free: Big-Toe Computing
2: Cultures of Calculation: William Gibson Collects
3: Rebel with an IV Pole: Portrait of Ninjalicious as an Urban Explorer
4: Home-Grown Hacker
5: Hacking the Grid: Does Electricity Want to Be Free?
6: Whistle Test: Blindness and Phone Phreaking
7: In Praise of Weak Play: Against the Chess Computers
8: CrackBerry: Addiction and Corporate Discipline
9: WikiLeaks and the Vicissitudes of Transparency
Conclusion
References
Index