Re: [silk] Hackers as political animals

2016-12-14 Thread Gabriella Coleman
Thanks for sharing. It is interesting, Malcolm Gladwell just published a piece on Snowden, concluding he was *not* a whistleblower but a hacker technocrat. He used part of my work to make the point, which was frustrating as the whole point of a lot of my recent work is to think about how hackers

Re: [silk] Hackers as political animals

2016-12-13 Thread Heather Madrone
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Biella Coleman (one of our list.lurkers) is uniquely qualified to write about the anthropology of the hacking underground. In her current paper, she asks an interesting question: why are hackers/crackers so much more political than people in other lines of work? Thoughts?