Brian Alleyne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Alleyne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Alleyne |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEYNE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Geek and Hacker Stories: Code, Culture and Storytelling from the Technosphere
This book examines geek culture and identity construction through narrative and ethnographic analysis of geek storytelling, exploring plots and themes from the wider social and cultural context in which geeks live, across a range of political positions.
Challenging Code: A Sociological Reading of the KDE Free Software Project
Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) challenges the norms and relations of the capitalist software industry that is at the core of network society. Many people involved in FLOSS see themselves as activists in a new social movement. The article discusses the KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) project as a FLOSS case study. KDE is one of several projects intended to bring ease of use of a graphical user interface (GUI) to various free operating…
An idea of community and its discontents: Towards a more reflexive sense of belonging in multicultural Britain
The paper poses the question: what are the epistemological consequences of an unreflexive use of the concept of community as the privileged container of cultural difference? The argument is made that contemporary notions of ethnic minority communities as deployed in official and demotic discourse have a complex history which may usefully be traced through classical sociological and anthropological thinking on the idea of community as connoting th…
Introduction: Framing difference: racial and ethnic studies in twentyfirst-century Britain
The events in Britain since the beginning of the new millennium starkly and dramatically reflect the continued salience of racial and ethnic difference. In media, political and academic discourse, the struggles over nationhood and multiculturalism, the duties of citizenship and the right to cultural expression, similarity and difference have been played out against global and national backdrops, and across many local stages. The articles in this …
An idea of community and its discontents: Towards a more reflexive sense of belonging in multicultural Britain
The paper poses the question: what are the epistemological consequences of an unreflexive use of the concept of community as the privileged container of cultural difference? The argument is made that contemporary notions of ethnic minority communities as deployed in official and demotic discourse have a complex history which may usefully be traced through classical sociological and anthropological thinking on the idea of community as connoting th…
Introduction: Framing difference: racial and ethnic studies in twentyfirst-century Britain
The events in Britain since the beginning of the new millennium starkly and dramatically reflect the continued salience of racial and ethnic difference. In media, political and academic discourse, the struggles over nationhood and multiculturalism, the duties of citizenship and the right to cultural expression, similarity and difference have been played out against global and national backdrops, and across many local stages. The articles in this …
Challenging Code: A Sociological Reading of the KDE Free Software Project
Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) challenges the norms and relations of the capitalist software industry that is at the core of network society. Many people involved in FLOSS see themselves as activists in a new social movement. The article discusses the KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) project as a FLOSS case study. KDE is one of several projects intended to bring ease of use of a graphical user interface (GUI) to various free operating…
An idea of community and its discontents: Towards a more reflexive sense of belonging in multicultural Britain
The paper poses the question: what are the epistemological consequences of an unreflexive use of the concept of community as the privileged container of cultural difference? The argument is made that contemporary notions of ethnic minority communities as deployed in official and demotic discourse have a complex history which may usefully be traced through classical sociological and anthropological thinking on the idea of community as connoting th…
Introduction: Framing difference: racial and ethnic studies in twentyfirst-century Britain
The events in Britain since the beginning of the new millennium starkly and dramatically reflect the continued salience of racial and ethnic difference. In media, political and academic discourse, the struggles over nationhood and multiculturalism, the duties of citizenship and the right to cultural expression, similarity and difference have been played out against global and national backdrops, and across many local stages. The articles in this …
Challenging Code: A Sociological Reading of the KDE Free Software Project
Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) challenges the norms and relations of the capitalist software industry that is at the core of network society. Many people involved in FLOSS see themselves as activists in a new social movement. The article discusses the KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) project as a FLOSS case study. KDE is one of several projects intended to bring ease of use of a graphical user interface (GUI) to various free operating…
Geek and Hacker Stories: Code, Culture and Storytelling from the Technosphere
This book examines geek culture and identity construction through narrative and ethnographic analysis of geek storytelling, exploring plots and themes from the wider social and cultural context in which geeks live, across a range of political positions.
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)