Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics.
The writer explores the social, technical, and legal associations among so-called geeks—hackers, lawyers, activists, and information technology entrepreneurs—on the Internet. He points out that the mode of association particular to this group is that of a “recursive public sphere” comprised of a sh...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Anthropology Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 185 - 215 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May 2005
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