When Technocultures Collide: Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy

by Gary Genosko

Book Overview

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.

When Technocultures Collide provides rich and diverse studies of collision courses between technologically inspired...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554588979
• ISBN13: 9781554588978
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"