Hacking Europe : From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes
Gerard. Alberts
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : : Springer London, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (268 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: How European Players Captured the Computer and Created the Scenes ""; ""1.1 The Hacker Phenomenon""; ""1.2 Appropriating Computers and Making Technology""; ""1.3 Appropriating America and Making Europe""; ""1.4 European Diversity and Common Ground""; ""Bibliography""; ""Part I: Appropriating America: Making One�s Own""; ""Chapter 2: Transnational (Dis)Connection in Localizing Personal Computing in the Netherlands, 1975�1990""; ""2.1 Introduction ""; ""2.2 Personal Computing Pioneers: Bridging the Atlantic"". - ""2.3 Resolving Design Differences: Basicode as Computer Esperanto""""2.4 Alienation from Producers: Hobbyist Cracking Software""; ""2.5 Protected Educational Market: From Niche to Microsoft Monopoly""; ""2.6 Multiple American Appropriations""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 3: “Inside a Day You Will Be Talking to It Like an Old Friend�: The Making and Remaking of Sinclair Personal Computing in 1980s Britain""; ""3.1 The Challenge of the Chip""; ""3.2 The Making of an Educational Home Computer""; ""3.3 GOTO Education""; ""3.4 “Serious� Use""; ""3.5 Just a Toy Computer?"". - ""3.6 Game Over""""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 4: Legal Pirates Ltd: Home Computing Cultures in Early 1980s Greece""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 When IBM Provided Nothing""; ""4.3 “You Can Make Your Own Version of Software�""; ""4.4 The Role of Mediators""; ""4.5 Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Part II: Bastard Sons of the Cold War: Creating Computer Scences""; ""Chapter 5: Galaxy and the New Wave: Yugoslav Computer Culture in the 1980s""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 History of Computing in Yugoslavia""; ""5.3 Research Institutes and Digital Computers""; ""5.4 Consumer Society"". - ""5.5 “New Tendencies�""""5.6 Culture Shift and Generation Gap""; ""5.7 Illegal Imports and the Birth of a Scene""; ""5.8 Galaksija, Computers in Your Home, Revolution""; ""5.9 Ventilator 202""; ""5.10 New Kids on the Block""; ""5.11 Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 6: Playing and Copying: Social Practices of Home Computer Users in Poland during the 1980s""; ""6.1 Introduction""; ""6.2 Private Importers""; ""6.3 Computer Bazaars""; ""6.4 Pewex and Baltona Retail Stores""; ""6.5 Computerization Movement""; ""6.6 Computer Magazines""; ""6.7 Communist Sanctioned Computer Clubs"". - ""6.8 Social Networks, Gaming Culture, and Sneakernets """"6.9 User Groups""; ""6.10 The Demoscene""; ""6.11 Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 7: Multiple Users, Diverse Users: Appropriation of Personal Computers by Demoscene Hackers""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Technology Appropriation Within a Scene""; ""7.3 Scripting Technology""; ""7.4 Me and My Scene""; ""The Scene as a Stage""; "" Winners vs. Losers""; ""7.5 Me and My Computer""; ""7.6 Conclusions""; ""Bibliography""; ""Part III: Going Public: How to Change the World"". - ""Chapter 8: Heroes Yet Criminals of the German Computer Revolution"". - Hacking Europe focuses on the playfulness that was at the heart of how European users appropriated microcomputers in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The essays argue that users--whether the design of the projected use of computers was detailed or still unfinished--assigned their own meanings to the machines in unintended ways. The book traces the user practices of chopping games in Warsaw, hacking software in Athens, creating chaos in Hamburg, producing demos in Turku, and partying with computing in Zagreb and Amsterdam. Focusing on several European countries at the end of the Cold
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| ISBN | 9781447154921
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