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

This piece draws on ethnographic experience at various hacker conferences to rethink how face-to-face interactions work in concert with digital interactivity to constitute social worlds. Through a process of ritual condensation and emotional celebration, the conference works to perform and thus conf...

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Published in:Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 47 - 73
Main Author: Coleman, Gabriella
Format: Article
Published: George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research Winter 2010
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