[hackerspaces] Hackerspaces origins history

Vesna Manojlovic becha at xs4all.nl
Tue Aug 12 12:17:39 CEST 2014


Hi,

> On 08/12/2014 12:20 AM, michael howard wrote:
>> This text is pretty helpful, any more similar to it?
>> http://www.monochrom.at/hacking-the-spaces/

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, hellekin wrote:
> *** Maxigas published a few texts in Spanish (I translated the latest[0]
> one into French[1]), dunno if they're available in English yet.

Maxigas: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/hacklabs-and-hackerspaces/

Ancient history (ask Dorien for more specific links):

Ph. D. dissertation by Dorien Zandbergen, May 2011: "New Edge. 
Technology and Spirituality in the San Francisco Bay Area"

master thesis by Dorien Zandbergen: "Computers In Actie" (2003, in Dutch)
(digital activism of the two hackergroups ASCII and the Genderchangers in
Amsterdam squats.)

http://dorienzandbergen.nl/links/


History of feminist hackerspaces:

http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-rise-of-feminist-hackerspaces-and-how-to-make-your-own


See also:

“Production and governance in hackerspaces: A manifestation of 
Commons-based peer production in the physical realm?”

http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IJCS.pdf

and my commentary / review, introducing more female voices:

http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/missing-female-voices-hackerspaces.txt

Lot more links here (to videos, ethics, and general hackers sociological 
topics)
https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Hackers_tribes#About_hackerspaces

Vesna

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