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Hi,<br>
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I completed a PhD thesis on Wi-Fi hackers a few years ago, using an
ethnographic approach with some elements of participatory action
research. I didn't focus on learning but on co-productions of social
and technical relationships - as well as the politics of hacking. Some
of what I researched related to informal learning and grassroots
organizations, and that's what might be interesting to anyone working
on hackerspaces. I'm still doing work on hacking, especially hardware
hacking, and am pleased to see that there's a community of researchers
developing around this.<br>
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If anyone is interested, some of my papers/thesis chapters are posted
on my blog at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.alisonpowell.ca/?page_id=72">http://www.alisonpowell.ca/?page_id=72</a><br>
<br>
alison powell.<br>
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Magnus Eriksson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hey!
Wow, I just signed up to the list yesterday to see if other people
were doing hackerspace research and I'm thrown right in the middle of
this wonderful thread!
I'm preparing for an ethnography style active participatory research
masters in sociology as well as researching hackerspaces for my
interaction design job at the interactive institute here in Sweden and
I've been involved in forskningsavd.org and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gbg.hackerspace.se/">http://gbg.hackerspace.se/</a>
For now I have been mostly reading theoretical stuff that is only
indirectly related like nigel thrift, jane bennett, bruno latour and
various design approaches that are similar to how hackers approach
problems. As someone pointed out in the thread, there is not much
research directly relating to hackerspaces conducted. But great to see
so many approaches taken by you!
I would love to put up a common repository for resources. Perhaps a
tag at delicious would be the simplest to maintain.
Rose: Which article by Becker did you refer to? "about studying a
group you are a part of"
cheers,
Magnus Eriksson
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Kris Gesling <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:krisgesling@gmail.com"><krisgesling@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Wow you never realise there's so much cool research going on, I'm still just
an undergrad but am looking at honours topics for next year or the year
after (might have a little break after ive spent most of my life now in
educational institutions).
What do you think about sticking some basic info and links up on the
hackerspaces wiki? It'd be great to be able to see all the different stuff
that's going on and keep up to date with it.
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