“Can Our Kids Hack It With Computers?” Constructing Youth Hackers in Family Computing Magazines (1983–1987)
Building upon existing scholarship on media representation of hackers and the social history of personal computing, this essay positions U.S. families making sense of microcomputers in the mid-1980s as central to the history of hacking. Archival material for this project consists of 74 issues of you...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Communication (19328036) Vol. 8; pp. 673 - 699 |
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University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press
2014
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