Examines computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, "CrackBerry" users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, and chess geeks. The dangers and joys of struggles for autonomy are underlined in studies of RIM's BlackBerry and Julian Assange's WikiLeaks website.
Examines computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, "CrackBerry" users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, and chess geeks. The dangers and joys of struggles for autonomy are underlined in studies of RIM's BlackBerry and Julian Assange's WikiLeaks website.
Gary Genosko is a professor in and director of the Communication Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He held a Canada Research Chair in Technoculture from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of Remodelling Communication: From WWII to the WWW (2012), Félix Guattari: A Critical Introduction (2009), and co-author, with Scott Thompson, of Punched Drunk: Alcohol, Surveillance and the LCBO (2009).
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Table of Contents for When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy by Gary Genosko Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Beyond Hands Free: Big-Toe Computing 2: Cultures of Calculation: William Gibson Collects 3: Rebel with an IV Pole: Portrait of Ninjalicious as an Urban Explorer 4: Home-Grown Hacker 5: Hacking the Grid: Does Electricity Want to Be Free? 6: Whistle Test: Blindness and Phone Phreaking 7: In Praise of Weak Play: Against the Chess Computers 8: CrackBerry: Addiction and Corporate Discipline 9: WikiLeaks and the Vicissitudes of Transparency Conclusion References Index
Table of Contents for When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy by Gary Genosko Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Beyond Hands Free: Big-Toe Computing 2: Cultures of Calculation: William Gibson Collects 3: Rebel with an IV Pole: Portrait of Ninjalicious as an Urban Explorer 4: Home-Grown Hacker 5: Hacking the Grid: Does Electricity Want to Be Free? 6: Whistle Test: Blindness and Phone Phreaking 7: In Praise of Weak Play: Against the Chess Computers 8: CrackBerry: Addiction and Corporate Discipline 9: WikiLeaks and the Vicissitudes of Transparency Conclusion References Index
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