Book Review: Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism (Tim Jordan)

摘要

In our increasingly connected global society, where digital media facilitate the distributionand creation of information and our reliance on technology becomes more prevalent, our at-tention turns to those hackers who create, manipulate and even break these technologies.Tim Jordan's Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism suggests the hackercommunity is complex. For Jordan, that community is primarily centred around two differ-ing forms of the hack, crackers and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) programmers, aswell as a number of sub-cultures or periphery groups such as hacktivists and cyberterror-ists. These forms merge, develop, interlink and compete within the virtual space to create acommunity of hackers that offer new and exciting questions to the debate around technolo-gical determinism