Title
More-Than-Tech Communities: Alternative Imaginaries Within Hacking and Crafting
Author
Fredy Mora-Gámez
Author
Sarah Davies
Abstract
Tech communities are groups that come together to engage with particular technologies. In describing two instances of such communities—hacker- and makerspaces in the United States, and the crafting activities of peasant movements in Colombia—we explore the ways in which their activities exceed their focus on and use of technology and find that practices of hacking and crafting are embedded in imaginaries of attentiveness and care. The use of technology is thus intertwined with the production of particular affects rather than being a goal in itself. We propose the notion of more-than-tech communities as a means of highlighting the ways in which there will, in such communities, always be more at stake than relationships and interactions with technology.
Keywords
hackingcraftingtech communitysocial movementcarereparation
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2064239
Appeared in
Title
International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
Volume
17
ISSN
1932-8036
Issued
2023
From page
4182
To page
4195
Publisher
USC Annenberg Press
Date issued
2023
Access rights
Rights statement
Copyright © 2023 (Fredy Mora-Gámez and Sarah R. Davies)

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