{"id":17915,"date":"2012-11-25T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17915"},"modified":"2012-11-25T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T16:56:31","slug":"anthropology-and-hacker-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/anthropology-and-hacker-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology and hacker culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/11\/25\/coding-freedom-an-an.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> on a new book by Biella Coleman called <em>Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Coleman&#8217;s dissertation has been], edited and streamlined, under the title of <em>Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking<\/em>, which comes out today from Princeton University Press (Quinn Norton, also well known for her <em>Wired<\/em> reporting on Anonymous and Occupy, had a hand in the editing). <em>Coding Freedom<\/em> walks the fine line between popular accessibility and scholarly rigor, and does a very good job of expressing complex ideas without (too much) academic jargon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coding Freedom<\/em> is insightful and fascinating, a superbly observed picture of the motives, divisions and history of the free software and software freedom world. As someone embedded in both those worlds, I found myself surprised by connections I&#8217;d never made on my own, but which seemed perfectly right and obvious in hindsight. Coleman&#8217;s work pulls together a million IRC conversations and mailing list threads and wikiwars and gets to their foundations, the deep discussion evolving through the world of free\/open source software. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow on a new book by Biella Coleman called Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking: [Coleman&#8217;s dissertation has been], edited and streamlined, under the title of Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, which comes out today from Princeton University Press (Quinn Norton, also well known for her Wired reporting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[209,262,271,129,92],"class_list":["post-17915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-anthropology","tag-culture","tag-ethics","tag-hack","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4EX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17917,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions\/17917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}