Characterizing Hacking
Mundane Engagement in US Hacker and Makerspaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah R Davies (0000-0002-2113-9103, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-197 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243917703464 |
| OpenAlex | W2606426517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 35 |
The rise of a "maker movement," located in hacker and makerspaces and involving the democratization of technologies of production and support of grassroots innovation, is receiving increasing attention from science and technology studies (STS) scholarship. This article explores how hacking is characterized by users of hacker and makerspaces and relates this to broader discussion of the maker movement as, for instance, promoting innovation, engaged in countercultural critique, or as accessible to anyone. Based on an interview study of users of twelve hacker and makerspaces across the United States, it argues that for these users, hacking is not about politics, commercial innovation, or critique. Rather, it is understood as a lifestyle one subscribes to, a meaningful leisure activity, or as providing access to a welcoming and close-knit community. Contrary to expectations of the maker movement as heralding social change, the benefits of hacking were viewed as personal rather than political, economic, or social; similarly, democratization of technology was experienced as rather incidental to most hackers' and makers' experiences
Computer security · Democracy · Democratization · Grassroots · Hacker · Internet privacy · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Social movement · Sociology · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Digital Games and Media · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law
Collectivities and Technological Activism: Feminist Hacking
Crafting, connecting, and commoning in everyday maker projects
Making without fabrication
Livestreaming a doitocracy
Shades of Hacking
Sharing Space
Hackers against technology
Situating anticipation in everyday life
Destroying iPhones
Interrogating Innovation
The co-production of biotechnology and democratization in community science labs
Making space for making
Core values of genomic citizen science
Constructing the “Cocreative Citizen”
Religious Ritual in a Scientific Space
An economy in the making
A fablab at the periphery
Coding Freedom
The Maker Movement
Research design
Do-it-yourself biology and electronic waste hacking
What Dr Venter did on his holidays”
Serious Leisure and Work
Legacies of craft and the centrality of failure in a mother-operated hackerspace
Hacking in the public interest
The democratization of hacking and making
Determining social change
Issue-oriented hackathons as material participation
Production and governance in hackerspaces
The Californian ideology
If it weren‘t for my hobby, I'd have a life
Leisure
We Need a Showing of All Hands”
Real Ale’ Enthusiasts, Serious Leisure and the Costs of Getting ‘Too Serious’ About Beer
The Semiotic Self and Serious Leisure
Hacking Hacked! The Life Cycles of Digital Innovation
Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship
Three Reasons Why the Future Is in the Making
What Are We Busy Doing
Hacking with Chinese Characteristics
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |