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Discussion The Experience in the Tokyo Hackerspace Excerpted from Denise Kera: "The last case study in our thumbnail survey will focus on Tokyo Hackerspace, and emphasize how a vast range of citizen involvement in science, technology, and policy are subtly ...
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From the Wikipedia: 1. "The hacker ethic comprises the values and philosophy that are standard in the hacker community. The early hacker culture and resulting philosophy originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1950s and 1960s. The term 'hacker ethic' is attributed to journalist Steven Levy as described in his book title...
Source of the concept is the book: Himanen, Pekka. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Random House, 2002 Quote from the back cover of The Hacker Ethic, by Pekka Himanen: “Nearly a century ago, Max Weber articulated the animating spirit of the industrial age, the Protestant ethic. Now, Pekka Himanen - together with Linus Torvald...
Pekka Himanen URL = Pekka Himanen is a Finnish philosopher and researcher on the information society, most well-known for his landmark book The Hacker Ethic, which updates Max Weber's classic on the Calvinist work ethic. In his book he shows how network society is both exacerbating the Calvinist work ethic to the point where it becomes immoral and ...
A view on the hacker ethic by Richard Barbrook
From the "Manifesto for ‘Digital Artisans: 4. We will shape the new information technologies in our own interests. Although they were originally developed to reinforce hierarchical power, the full potential of the Net and computing can only be realised through our autonomous and creative labour. We will transform the machines of domination into the technologies of liberation. 9. For those of us who want to be truly creative in hypermedia and computing, the only practical solution is to become...
On the necessity of open collaboration
" The free sharing of information - in this case code as opposed to software development - has nothing to do with altruism or a specific anti-authoritarian social vision. It is motivated by the fact that in a complex collaborative process, it is effectively impossible to differentiate between the "raw material" that goes into a creative process and the "product" that comes out. Even the greatest innovators stand on the shoulders of giants. All new creations are built on previous creations and...
Tony Prug: the hacker ethic and the protestant ethic
From http://rabelais.socialtools.net/FreeSoftware.ToniPrug.Aug2007.txt: "Hackers and the Protestant ethics For Himanen_(2001), it is the hacker ethics that drives thedevelopment of Free Software. Hacker not meaning just a computerspecialist of certain type, but any person who practices some of thehacker ethics. It was Levy_(1984) who first formulated main point ofhackers ethics as: a) access to computers (and anything which mightteach you something about the way the world works) should beunli...
See also The Hacker Manifesto and the Play EthicThe Hacker Ethic and Meaningful Work. Tom Chance, essay2023年5月7日 · The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense. This wiki is our knowledge commons. Our motto is " Together we know everything, together we have everything ", i.e. pooling our resources through commons, creates prosperity for all.
Haveblue has been testing the "market" for distributing CAD/CAM weapons designs. His post of an earlier design to Thingverse (a site for 3D printing design patterns) led to a change in their policy (although it hasn't been enforced). Haveblue's work is based on the Solidworks files available for download from the CNCguns site."
Throughout Gatewatching, Bruns clings to the goal of multiperspectival coverage and argues that online collaborative communities are better positioned to produce and promote a diversity of perspectives than traditional mass media organizations. To support this view, Bruns builds upon classic Gatekeeping theory introduced by Kurt Lewin (1947 ...
When Milosevic refused to concede defeat to opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica, Otpor's example of disciplined nonviolence, along with its masses of activists, were crucial in convincing Serbia's security forces to defy Milosevic's orders to shoot at the protesters. On Oct. 7, the embattled president resigned. The unthinkable had happened.
Discussion Nafeez Ahmed: "Homer-Dixon’s synchronous failure framing provides a compelling way to understand the first side. His study also recognizes the centrality of the global energy system to its heightened vulnerability to synchronous failure. The potentially
