Hacking Europe

Hacking Europe
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9781447154938
ISBN-13 : 1447154932
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Download or read book Hacking Europe written by Gerard Alberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hacking Europe traces the user practices of chopping games in Warsaw, hacking software in Athens, creating chaos in Hamburg, producing demos in Turku, and partying with computing in Zagreb and Amsterdam. Focusing on several European countries at the end of the Cold War, the book shows the digital development was not an exclusively American affair. Local hacker communities appropriated the computer and forged new cultures around it like the hackers in Yugoslavia, Poland and Finland, who showed off their tricks and creating distinct “demoscenes.” Together the essays reflect a diverse palette of cultural practices by which European users domesticated computer technologies. Each chapter explores the mediating actors instrumental in introducing and spreading the cultures of computing around Europe. More generally, the “ludological” element--the role of mischief, humor, and play--discussed here as crucial for analysis of hacker culture, opens new vistas for the study of the history of technology.


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