Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

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Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman provides an inside look at the global community of hackers and the rise of the free and open source software movement. Moving beyond the stereotype of the lone criminal, she portrays hacking as a sophisticated technical, moral, and aesthetic project. Through deep ethnographic research and interviews, Coleman explains how these individuals collaborate to build soft…

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