“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...

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Published in:	International Journal of Communication (19328036) Vol. 8; pp. 673 - 699
Main Author:	ALPER, MERYL
Format:	Essay
Published:	University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press 2014
Subjects:	Internet & youth Computers & families Personal computers Personal computers > Social aspects Periodicals Computer network resources Computer hackers Computer hacking History of computers Twentieth century
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost