episode 27 Hacktivism
This episode has a theme of hacktivism and I'm talking with two academics who have studied this subject. I caught up with Gabriela Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communicaation at NYU, in Wellington after she delivered a keynote at LinuxConfAu, and a talk about online protrests against Scientology at Victoria University. The second part of the show is some bits from an interview I did last month with Tessa Houghton, a PhD student at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Canterbury.
I asked Beilla for her perspective on the Creative Commons, and how it has developed in the past 10ish years and been influenced by Free and Open Source Software, her field of expertise. I asked her about hacktivism, the talk she gave at Victoria Universtiy, her forthcoming book, "Coding Freedom: Hacker Pleasure and the Ethics of Free and Open Source Software", and if she had any words of advice for young people who want to do similar ethnographic studies.
I also asked Tessa for her perspectives on copyright and the creative commons, and she talks about her thesis, "Techno-poliitical Activism as Counterpublic Sphere: Discursive Network Within Deliberative Transnational Politics?", which she co-authored with Yana Breindl, comparing the activist response to copyright legislation proposed recently in France and New Zealand. In the course of that discussion, we naturally talked a bit about ACTA, and I'm not sure it made it in the edit or not, but we did, sort of talk and wonder about what activist movement we will see when the ACTA meetings come here to New Zealand.
Lastly I'd like to thank Gravity Computing for sponsoring this show! Next week, we'll hear from some of the other keynote speakers at LCA2010.
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