The fourth DCS issue “Making and Hacking” sheds light on the communities and spaces of hackers, makers, DIY enthusiasts, and ‘fabbers’. Academics, artists, and hackerspace members examine the meanings and entanglements of maker and hacker cultures – from conceptual, methodological as well as empirical perspectives. With contributions by Kat Braybrooke and Tim Jordan, Sabine Hielscher, Jeremy Hunsinger, Justin Marshall and Catharine Rossi, among others, and an interview with Sebastian Kubitschko.
Table of Contents
Making and Hacking
Edited by Annika Richterich and Karin Wenz
Introduction
Making and Hacking
Annika Richterich and Karin Wenz
I Case Studies and Methodological Reflections
Genealogy, Culture and Technomyth
Decolonizing Western Information Technologies, from Open Source to the Maker Movement
Kat Braybrooke and Tim Jordan
Experimenting with Novel Socio-Technical Configurations
The Domestication of Digital Fabrication Technologies in FabLabs
Sabine Hielscher
Reading Makers
Locating Criticality in DIY and “Maker” Approaches
Minka Stoyanova
Hacking Together Globally
An Analysis of the Norms Surrounding Technology
Jeremy Hunsinger
“Just Do It!”
Considerations on the Acquisition of Hackerspace Field Skills as an Ethnomethodological Research Technique
Sebastian Dahm
II Entering the Field
Making with China
Craft-Based Participatory Research Methods for Investigating Shenzhen’s Maker Movement
Justin Marshall and Catharine Rossi
Urban Hacking and Its “Media Origins”
Angela Krewani
Making Sense of Sensors
Kate O’Riordan, Jennifer Parker, David Harris and Emile Devereaux
III In Conversation with …
Identity Crisis in the Pearl River Delta
A Conversation with a Hong Kong Hackerspace Community
Michelle Poon and Wilhelm E. J. Klein
“There Simply Is No Unified Hacker Movement.”
Why We Should Consider the Plurality of Hacker and Maker Cultures
Sebastian Kubitschko in Conversation with Annika Richterich and Karin Wenz
Biographical Notes