The Hacker Conference: A Ritual Condensation and Celebration of a Lifeworld

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Source: Gabriella Coleman
Affiliation: Harvard University

This paper written by Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist and expert on all things computer hacking, provides a new scholarly perspective on hacker conferences. Coleman takes an ethnographic an anthropological technique for analyzing this social communities and events. 

Keywords: Community , Hacking , History