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Hackerspaces : making the maker movement / Sarah R. Davies

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2017Description: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 192 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781509501205
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781509501168 | 9781509501175 | Erscheint auch als: Hackerspaces. Druck-Ausgabe Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2017. ix, 192 SeitenDDC classification:
  • 658.3/8
RVK: RVK: AP 15950 | MS 7965LOC classification:
  • TS171.57
Online resources: Summary: 'Anyone can hack'Notes; 6: How Do Hackerspaces Really Work?; Experiencing community; Community and social capital; 'What's that in the fridge?'; Notes; 7: Exclusion; Empowerment and exclusion; The rise of feminist hackerspaces; Crafting community; The dark side of social capital; Notes; 8: Cool Projects; The role of the project; What makes a cool project?; The Pleasure of the Hack; Notes; 9: Emancipation and Commodification; Self-actualization and serious leisure; On not being political; Commodifying the counter-culture; Hacking, governments and educators; Notes; 10: Who Is a Hacker?Summary: Table of Cotents; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; The rise of hacking and making; New tools and technologies; Experiencing hackerspaces; Where the book is going; Notes; 2: Craft, DIY and Active Leisure; The New Domesticity; Serious leisure; The pleasures of making; Notes; 3: Histories of Hacking and Making; The rise of hackerspaces; From makerspaces to DIY bio; Making a movement; Our research; Notes; 4: How Do Hackerspaces Work?; Origin stories; 'Do-ocracy'; Becoming a member; Online, offline; Notes; 5: The Hacker Spirit; The hacker spiritSummary: A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies like 3D printers, and the way in which they are being used in hacker and makerspaces. But why is the power of hacking and making an idea whose time has come' Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement takes the rise of the maker movement as its starting point. Hacker and makerspaces, fab labs, and DIY bio spaces are emerging all over the world. Based on a study of hacker and makerspaces across the US, the book explores cultures of hacking and making in the context of wider social changes, arguing that excitement about the maker movement is not just about the availability of new technologies, but the kinds of citizens we are expected to bePPN: PPN: 885975901Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK
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