Hacking Europe : from computer cultures to Demoscenes / Gerard Alberts, Ruth Oldenziel, editors.
2014
QA76.9.C66 H33 2014eb
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Title
Hacking Europe : from computer cultures to Demoscenes / Gerard Alberts, Ruth Oldenziel, editors.
ISBN
9781447154938 (electronic book)
1447154932 (electronic book)
9781447154921
1447154924
1447154932 (electronic book)
9781447154921
1447154924
Published
London : Springer, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 269 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-1-4471-5493-8 doi
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QA76.9.C66 H33 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/34
Summary
Annotation 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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Annotation 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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History of computing (London, England)
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