Hacking Europe - From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	History of Computing
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2014
Editors:	Gerard Alberts • Ruth Oldenziel
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	269
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
ISBN-13:	978-1-4471-7069-3
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4471-7069-5
Barcode:	9781447170693

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