[hackerspaces] Sociology thesis on hacker culture in the Netherlands

[Jarkko Moilanen]

Hi,

Congrats! Great :)

/Jarkko

Quoting Elgin Blankwater <elginno at gmail.com>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Some of you may recall some e-mails that were sent out about a year ago
> about someone doing a sociology thesis on hacker culture in the Netherlands.
> Well, I'm finally done. If you are interested, you can download it here:
> http://heelveelkoffie.nl/?p=72 in pdf and epub format (btw, my blog is
> outdated). The thesis starts with some sociological theory, which you can
> skip if you are not interested.
>
> I ended up writing quite a bit about the history of hacking because it
> thought it to be of great influence on the dynamics found today. I am a bit
> critical about my ethnographic writings as I think I could have used a
> couple of more years of experience at hackerspaces and hacker events (which
> I am planning to do, as there are still plans to set up a hackerspace in
> Amsterdam!) before drawing conclusions. But oh well, it's mostly a positive
> view of hacker culture anyway.
>
> A big thanks goes out to all the hackers that have been so open to me the
> past year, especially the guys (and some girls) from Revspace (Den Haag),
> Randomdata (Utrecht), Pumping Station:One (Chicago), and Slug (Amsterdam).
> Thanks for being awesome.
>
> I'd like to hear your opinions on my thesis.
> All the best,
>
> Elgin.
>



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  Jarkko Moilanen (phone: +358 46 640 8339)
  M.Soc.Sc. (Political Science)
  PhD Student, Information studies, University of Tampere
  Blog: Extreme activities in cyberspace - http://extreme.ajatukseni.net/
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  Founder of Hackerspace 5w, Finland, Tampere - 5w.fi
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