The hacker imaginaire: recoding futures? Technoscientific promises from the inventors of the internet

  • In the 1970s, researchers and engineers built the technical predecessor of today’s global digital networks, but more importantly, they created an “Internet Imaginaire” (Flichy 2007) with the aim of building a global virtual society. In the 1990s, most supporters of the utopian digital community fell silent. The hackers, however, remained, and they still adhere to rules put down in the so-called “hacker ethic” (Levy 1984; Coleman 2015), such as decentralization and freedom of information, which contribute to a sociotechnical “Hacker Imaginaire.” With the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) as a research programme, this paper investigates the genesis and perseverance of this imaginary by uncovering technoscientific promises in media documents and interviews, which were formulated in response to the continued development of Internet-based technologies and fuel this imaginary; and by describing its phenomenal structure.

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Author:Simone Ines Lackerbauer
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1174395
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/117439
ISSN:1803-6104OPAC
ISSN:1214-813XOPAC
Parent Title (Multiple languages):Sociální studia / Social Studies
Publisher:Masaryk University Press
Place of publication:Masaryk
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2024/12/10
Volume:16
Issue:2
First Page:51
Last Page:70
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5817/soc2019-2-51
Institutes:Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Sozialwissenschaften / Soziologie
Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Sozialwissenschaften / Soziologie / Lehrstuhl für Soziologie
Nachhaltigkeitsziele
Nachhaltigkeitsziele / Ziel 16 - Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Licence (German):CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)