Gabriella Coleman: Weapons of the Geek
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What are the different elements -- legal, ethical, and aesthetic -- that have fed into the stellar success of the free and open source software movement? In this talk, drawing on material from my forthcoming book, I discuss the unique elements within F/OSS that constitute it as a site of political action, and contextualize free software within a wider field of geek and hacker politics. I conclude by marshaling this material to critically assess the concept of Web 2.0, which has so powerfully structured understandings of the politics and power of digital media.