Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category

Kubitschko, Sebastian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_4

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“…Within the online German Left are several key groups that my research sees as important to its broader network. The Chaos Computer Club were active throughout this period and represented a radical activist hacking community in the very early stages of digital communication networks (Kubitschko, 2018;Coleman, 2013). The CCC first burst onto the scene with their hack of Bildschirmtext (BTX, a West German videotex service in the 1980s which has significant structural parallels to the internet), in which they stole 134,000 Deutsch Marks from a Hamburg bank, before returning it the next day.…”

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Dispatches From the Early Internet: Histories, Imaginaries, and Archaeologies

Rudenshiold,

Dame-Griff,

MacLean

et al. 2023

SPIR

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This panel charts disparate histories of early internet formations: building from and contributing to the growing body of work which operates across technical interfaces, infrastructures, and cultures of use to paint a more complete picture of how internet and computing cultures, as we now know them, came to be. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, these accounts work against hegemonic, top-down, “revolutionary” narratives of historical internet cultural and infrastructural development. Rather than revolutionary, this collection of papers views the development of new media as a sort of continual updating of technological norms through existing neoliberal logics. In case studies ranging from transgender identity to furry infrastructure, from German leftism to Canadian youth culture – this research offers new interventions, drawing from across geographies and temporalities and further problematizing the popular framing of any singular “internet.”

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Section: Core Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dispatches From the Early Internet: Histories, Imaginaries, and Archaeologies

Rudenshiold,

Dame-Griff,

MacLean

et al. 2023

SPIR

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Internet non marchand et division du travail militant

Richebourg

2023

Réseaux

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Les collectifs qui défendent l’existence d’un internet alternatif et non marchand sont souvent présentés par les sciences sociales comme marginaux et inaudibles (Hintz et Milan, 2009 ; Alexandre et al ., 2022). Certes les fournisseurs d’accès à internet (FAI) associatifs demeurent relativement invisibles au niveau national en France, mais le Parlement allemand a reconnu au réseau libre Freifunk un statut d’utilité publique en 2020. Si l’internet non marchand est réservé à une élite compétente, comment expliquer que les destins des infrastructures libres puissent être différents ? Partant du programme d’« ethnographie des infrastructures » (Star, 1999) et d’une enquête auprès de FAI associatifs en France et en Allemagne, nous montrerons que les services alternatifs ont façonné un discours de résistance à l’égard de l’internet commercial qui est entré, dans une certaine mesure, en écho avec les politiques publiques. Nous analysons en particulier le rôle de la division du travail dans le succès de ces collectifs dont la mission porte autant sur la construction d’infrastructures de connexion que sur la formulation d’un discours de plaidoyer en leur faveur. L’accession à une reconnaissance d’utilité publique apparaît corrélée à une division du travail autour de ces deux missions, au sein d’institutions distinctes.

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Toward a Stronger Theoretical Grounding of Computational Communication Science

Waldherr

Geise

Katzenbach

et al. 2021

Computational Communication Research

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Computational communication science (CCS) is embraced by many as a fruitful methodological approach to studying communication in the digital era. However, theoretical advances have not been considered equally important in CCS. Specifically, we observe an emphasis on mid-range and micro theories that misses a larger discussion on how macro-theoretical frameworks can serve CCS scholarship. With this article, we aim to stimulate such a discussion. Although macro frameworks might not point directly to specific questions and hypotheses, they shape our research through influencing which kinds of questions we ask, which kinds of hypotheses we formulate, and which methods we find adequate and useful. We showcase how three selected theoretical frameworks might advance CCS scholarship in this way: (1) complexity theory, (2) theories of the public sphere, and (3) mediatization theory. Using online protest as an example, we discuss how the focus (and the blind spots) of our research designs shifts with each framework.

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Chaos Computer Club: The Communicative Construction of Media Technologies and Infrastructures as a Political Category

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Dispatches From the Early Internet: Histories, Imaginaries, and Archaeologies

Dispatches From the Early Internet: Histories, Imaginaries, and Archaeologies

Internet non marchand et division du travail militant

Toward a Stronger Theoretical Grounding of Computational Communication Science

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