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in Zusammenarbeit mit dem interdisziplinaeren Forschungsprojekt
Sozialgeschichte der Informatik,Technische Universitaet Berlin
FS II 94 - 102
Internet im Auge der Ethnographin
Sabine Helmers
s@duplox.wzb.eu
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung gGmbH (WZB)
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Fon: (030) 25491-0; Fax (030) 25491-684
Internet is the name of a super computer network presently linking more than 2.2 million computers in over fourty countries. This network can be entered - any time, any place - through one of the computers connected. Since Internet was established about twenty years ago, several groups of communicators have grown within the insider's territory. They show distinctly marked formal and informal rules and specific patterns of interaction. This paper presents a general survey of the different cultures of hackers, cyberpunks, unix freaks, real programmers and other proud, knowledgeable and daring users who inhabit this artificial landscape made up of cables, satellite connections, net adaptors, modems and programmes. At the beginning, this net-world could only be entered by a few experts. Nowadays, the matter of knowledge and of who holds that knowledge first still plays a significant role within this world and becomes visible in collective values and rules of interaction.
login: password: welcome to the wonderful world of internet cd /INTERNET_IM_AUGE_DER_ETHNOGRAPHIN more Internet_Dschungel_-_Ueberall/Jederzeit more Zentrum_-_Peripherie more Die_Schwelle cd Das_Zentrum_als_Einheit more Fernsichten more Innenansichten more Einsteiger more Aussteiger cd Das_Zentrum_als_Vielheit cd Wissensgebiete more Hacker more Cyberpunks more Mikrowelten/Media_MOO more Freie_Software_fuer_alle more Betriebssysteme/Unix more Chiffrierung more Real_Programmers cd .. cd Begleitende_Attributionen more "Chaos_in_der_Hackerbude" more Fast_Food more Kleidung more Nachtaktive_Wesen cd /INTERNET_IM_AUGE_DER_ETHNOGRAPHIN make result
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