A Sociology of Hackers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3335944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Jordan (0000-0002-0057-291X, University of East London), Paul Taylor (0000-0002-8900-2912, University of East London), Paul H Taylor (0000-0002-3680-5543, University of East London) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 757-780 |
| Publication date | 1998-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00139 |
| OpenAlex | W2142593135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 80 |
| References cited | 8 |
Illicit computer intruders, or hackers, are often thought of as pathological individuals rather than as members of a community. However, hackers exist within social groups that provide expertise, support, training, journals and conferences. This article outlines this community to establish the nature of hacking within 'information societies'. To delineate a 'sociology of hackers', an introduction is provided to the nature of computer-mediated communication and the act of computer intrusion, the hack. Following this the hacking community is explored in three sections. First, a profile of the number of hackers and hacks is provided by exploring available demographics. Second, an outline of its culture is provided through a discussion of six different aspects of the hacking community. The six aspects are technology, secrecy, anonymity, membership fluidity, male dominance and motivations. Third, an exploration of the community's construction of a boundary, albeit fluid, between itself and its other, the computer security industry, is provided. This boundary is constructed through metaphors whose central role is to establish the ethical nature of hacking. Finally, a conclusion that rejects any pathologisation of hackers is offered
Anonymity · Computer security · Dominance (genetics) · Epistemology · Hacker · Internet privacy · Secrecy · Security community · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Crime and Security in Cyberspace
Digitalizando o cuidado
Collectivities and Technological Activism: Feminist Hacking
Low Self-Control, Deviant Peer Associations, and Juvenile Cyberdeviance
Social Learning and Cyber-Deviance
Exploring stolen data markets online
Repression, Education, and Politically Motivated Cyberattacks
Human Rights and Hacktivism
Measuring the Internet
Hacking
The psychological correlates of cybercrime offending
Politiques du hacking
Cybercrime on the menu? Examining cafeteria-style offending among financially motivated cybercriminals
Advancing research on the Human Factor in Cybercrime
An Examination of Motivation and Routine Activity Theory to Account for Cyberattacks Against Dutch Web Sites
Use of a Multitheoretic Model to Understand and Classify Juvenile Computer Hacking Behavior
Examining the Role of Power-Control Theory and Self-Control to Account for Computer Hacking
Latent Class Analysis of Internet Users
Assessing the Correlates of Online Fraud Offending Among Juveniles
Assessing the Role of Opportunity and Low Self-Control in Juvenile Hacking
Communities of innovation
Explaining Cyber Deviance among School-Aged Youth
Toward a carnivalesque analysis of hacking
Ruminations on Warning Banners, Deterrence, and System Intrusion Research
On the Value of Honeypots to Produce Policy Recommendations
Why do young people start and continue with ethical hacking? A qualitative study on individual and social aspects in the lives of ethical hackers
Illegal Roaming and File Manipulation on Target Computers
Hacktivism and the male-only stereotype
Free software meets Facebook
If they don’t listen to us, they deserve it”
Shades of Hacking
Creating Places for Women on the Internet
A Case of Mistaken Identity? News Accounts of Hacker, Consumer, and Organizational Responsibility for Compromised Digital Records
Rebels for the System? Virus Writers, General Intellect, Cyberpunk and Criminal Capitalism
Hackers' Accounts
The Bad Boys and Girls of Cyberspace
Examining the Role of Technology in the Formation of Deviant Subcultures
The Challenges of Regulating Warez Trading
Examining the Characteristics That Differentiate Jihadi-Associated Cyberattacks Using Routine Activities Theory
Using Machine Learning to Examine Cyberattack Motivations on Web Defacement Data
The Human Factor of Cybercrime
The Illicit Ecosystem of Hacking
Tracing controversies in hacker communities
Social Engineering
Challenging Code
Cyber-Dependent Crimes
Exploring Strategies for Qualitative Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry Using On‐Line Data
Exploring the factors that differentiate individual and group offenders in cyber-dependent crime
We Know Where You Are, What You Are Doing and We Will Catch You
Soldering Toward Media Democracy
The effect of self-control on victimization in the cyberworld
Hacking work
Cybercrime is (often) boring
Craft(y)ness
The Greatest Crime Syndicate since the Gambinos
Open parliament policy applied to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
Cryptomarchés et carding
Regulating Cybercrime through Law Enforcement and Industry Mechanisms
Global anti-corporate struggle
The gray zones of innovation
Honour Among (Cyber)thieves
Bricoler le vivant dans des garages
The Use of Online Crime Markets by Cybercriminal Networks
Language and Libertarianism
Debating Civil Society
Rave and Straightedge, the Virtual and the Real
Solidarity, Disdain, and the Imagined Center of the Gay Imagined Community
There Must Be Some Type of Misunderstanding, There Must Be Some Kind of Mistake
Are Active Users the Most Central to Hacker Social Networks? A Comparative Analysis of Public and Private Online Network Structures Among Hackers
The Morality Behind Supporting Crowdfunding Campaigns for Eco-Hacktivists
Decoding the Binary
A Test of Social Learning Theory and Self-Control on Cyber Offending
Digital Drift and the 'Sense of Injustice
Internet-Based Radicalization as Enculturation to Violent Deviant Subcultures
Hacking in High School
An Assessment of the Current State of Cybercrime Scholarship
Transferring Subcultural Knowledge On-Line
Examining the Applicability of Lifestyle-Routine Activities Theory for Cybercrime Victimization
Show Me the Money
Subcultural Evolution? Examining the Influence of on- And Off-Line Experiences on Deviant Subcultures
| Unique citing works | 80 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,2 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |