Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, by E. Gabriella Coleman

Gillen, Martina

doi:10.1093/ijlit/eat006

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“…Accordingly, values like independence and openness appeared to be renegotiated and co-produced with new technologies, machine learning models, and funding opportunities, also leading to certain "value pragmatics." This resonates with Coleman's (2013) research on the heterogeneity of "hacker ethics." It further corresponds to Birkinbine's (2020: 8−9) distinction between the free software movement, tightly intertwined with its radical founder Richard Stallman, and open source communities described as more open, flexible, and less anti-capitalist.…”

Section: Counter-imaginaries Social Causes and European Valuesmentioning

confidence: 75%

European Search? How to counter-imagine and counteract hegemonic search with European search engine projects

Mager

2023

Big Data & Society

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This article investigates how developers of alternative search engines challenge increasingly corporate imaginaries of digital futures by building out counter-imaginaries of search engines devoted to social values instead of mere profit maximization. Drawing on three in-depth case studies of European search engines, it analyzes how search engine developers counter-imagine hegemonic search, what social values support their imaginaries, and how they are intertwined with their sociotechnical practices. This analysis shows that notions like privacy, independence, and openness appear to be fluid, context-dependent, and changing over time, leading to a certain “value pragmatics” that allows the projects to scale beyond their own communities of practice. It further shows how European values, and broader notions of Europe as “unified or pluralistic,” are constructed and co-produced with developers’ attempts to counter-imagine and counteract hegemonic search. To conclude, I suggest three points of intervention that may help alternative search engine projects, and digital technologies more generally, to not only make their counter-imaginaries more powerful, but also acquire the necessary resources to build their technologies and infrastructures accordingly. I finally discuss how “European values,” in all their richness and diversity, can contribute to this undertaking.

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Section: Counter-imaginaries Social Causes and European Valuesmentioning

confidence: 75%

European Search? How to counter-imagine and counteract hegemonic search with European search engine projects

Mager

2023

Big Data & Society

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“…To gain insights into the data practices of ACC skeptics, we conducted an investigative digital ethnography that combines methods from digital ethnography (Boellstorff, 2012; Coleman, 2010, 2012; Hine, 2000; Krafft & Donovan, 2020; Panofsky & Donovan, 2019; Pink et al, 2015) and investigative journalism (Silverman, 2020). The overall process for conducting an investigative digital ethnography involves identifying relevant topics and artifacts, ascertaining the media ecosystem and influencers, creating a monitoring environment and strategy, auditing assumptions, and analyzing findings (Friedberg, 2020).…”

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Curating for Contrarian Communities: Data Practices of Anthropogenic Climate Change Skeptics

Wofford,

Thomer

2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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The open data movement is often touted as a sweeping strategy to democratize science, promote diverse data reuse, facilitate reproducibility, accelerate innovation, and much more. However, the potential perils of open data are seldom examined and discussed in equal measure to these promises. As we continue to invest in open data, we need to study the full spectrum of what open data facilitates in practice, which can then inform future policy and design decisions. This paper aims to address this gap by presenting an investigative digital ethnography of one contrarian community, anthropogenic climate change (ACC) skeptics, to describe how they process, analyze, preserve, and share data. Skeptics often engage in data reuse similar to conventional data reusers, albeit for unconventional purposes and with varying degrees of trust and expertise. The data practices of ACC skeptics challenge the assumption that open data is universally beneficial. These findings carry implications for data repositories and how they might curate data and design databases with this type of reuse in mind.

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“…To complement this sociological work, further anthropological research could shed some light on the extent to which the economic and political beliefs held by participants in crypto echo the ideologies of two earlier movements: the cryptographic hacker and open-source software communities. The distribution of responses relating to fair rewards for developer teams and the utility of hard work and in crypto indicates that meritocratic values are prevalent; meritocracy may play a similar role in blockchain ecosystems, themselves often open source, as it has in prior open source and hacker communities (Gabriella Coleman, 2013;Dunbar-Hester, 2019). Privacy has been at the forefront of concerns in the development of internet technologies since the cypherpunks (Hughes, 1993) and remains prevalent in blockchain (Brunton, 2020).…”

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Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users

Korpas¹,

Frey

Tan

2023

Front. Blockchain

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We present a survey to evaluate crypto-political, crypto-economic, and crypto-governance sentiment in people who are part of a blockchain ecosystem. Based on 3,710 survey responses, we describe their beliefs, attitudes, and modes of participation in crypto and investigate how self-reported political affiliation and blockchain ecosystem affiliation are associated with these. We observed polarization in questions on perceptions of the distribution of economic power, personal attitudes towards crypto, normative beliefs about the distribution of power in governance, and external regulation of blockchain technologies. Differences in political self-identification correlated with opinions on economic fairness, gender equity, decision-making power and how to obtain favorable regulation, while blockchain affiliation correlated with opinions on governance and regulation of crypto and respondents’ semantic conception of crypto and personal goals for their involvement. We also find that a theory-driven constructed political axis is supported by the data and investigate the possibility of other groupings of respondents or beliefs arising from the data.

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Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, by E. Gabriella Coleman

Cited by 4 publications

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European Search? How to counter-imagine and counteract hegemonic search with European search engine projects

European Search? How to counter-imagine and counteract hegemonic search with European search engine projects

Curating for Contrarian Communities: Data Practices of Anthropogenic Climate Change Skeptics

Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users

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