Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers

Re:Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers by zerostar07 on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @07:42AM (#4842212)

Her 'findings' are not really related to hackers. In fact, every observation she makes could equally apply to physics geeks of the 50s.

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Re:Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers by ebiester on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:17AM (#4842333)

True, but the current geek cultures are very much an extension of those departments. Anthropology is the study of men, and men do not often develop entirely new traditions. It would also be worth exploring if similarities between physics geeks and guild societies before that existed.

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Re:Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers by sanxiyn on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:54AM (#4842501)

There is an ethnography for that(physics geeks) too.

http://www.amazon.com/Beamtimes-Lifetimes-World-Energy-Physi...

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Re:Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers by derrida on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:11AM (#4842301)

So you've read the book?

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Re:Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers by zerostar07 on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @09:47AM (#4842745)

I was referring to the interview

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