Making Our World

The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context

By: Jeremy Hunsinger (Editor), Andrew Schrock (Editor)

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eBook | 27 September 2022 | Edition Number 1

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Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context describes and situates the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of hacking and making. Hackers and makers are often mythologized, leading to people misunderstanding them as folk heroes for the modern age. In response, this book describes and critiques these movements from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives to help readers appreciate their worldwide scope and highly localized interpretations. Making Our World is essential reading for students and scholars of technology and society, particularly those interested in social movements and DIY cultures.

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"Making Our World draws important and under-realized connections between often disparate strands of scholarship around the promise of hacking and making. From critical perspectives to hopeful exemplars, the authors pose new forms of world-building as central sites to illuminate the often mystifying influence of technology cultures. Hacking is not only ordinary, the authors show, but also tied up in the production of ordinariness-of the everyday concerns, identities, and collectives through which transformations of civil society unfold. Whether in makerspaces, start-up lofts, hackathons, or protests-online or out on the streets-these grounded studies interrogate and, in some cases, recover the often precarious terms of neoliberal educational and economic reform." -Daniela Rosner, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington