Denis Moschitto, Evrim Sen: Hackerland: Das Logbuch der Szene (2001) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · germany, hacker culture, hacking, piracy, software
Eine Mischung aus Reportage und Sachbuch macht Hackerland zu einer spannenden Lektüre. Die beiden jungen Autoren beschreiben den Grenzbereich zwischen Legalität und kriminellen Handlungen der Szene, in der sie sich selbst seit mehreren Jahren bewegen.
Das Buch setzt gegen immer noch gängige Klischees über Hacker zum ersten Mal den Schwerpunkt auf die Entwicklung der legalen und illegalen Szene. Über die Geschichte der Raubkopierer und des Crackens werden Begriffe und Zusammenhänge erklärt, und in die geheime Welt der Szene eingeführt.
Der Mythos Hacker wird aufgelöst und ersetzt durch eine Generation von Computerfanatikern, die in Wettkämpfen und auf Parties nur ein Ziel haben: Hauptsache Spaß. Doch werden auch Namen aktiver Personen der illegalen Szene und Verbindungen aufgedeckt, die noch nie an die Öffentlichkeit gelangt sind.
Publisher Tropen, 2001
Edition 3
ISBN 3932170296, 9783932170294
165 pages
Deciphering User-Generated Content in Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study (2012)
Filed under report | Tags: · activism, journalism, mass media, social media, syria
“Social media and user-generated content played an important role in coverage of the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya; however, content from the public was supplementary to traditional newsgathering in media coverage.
By contrast, in Syria, with the tight control and exclusion of foreign media, news organizations had to rely almost exclusively on user-generated content, particularly in the early months of the uprising. Much of the user-generated content used by news outlets came via Syrian activists inside Syria and in exile.
To examine how user-generated content has been integrated into prominent Arab-language news organizations, Internews commissioned and collaborated with the Center for Global Communication Studies to produce Deciphering User-Generated Content In Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study which looks closely at how BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic used social media, photos and videos taken by members of the public to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria, particularly in the early days of the uprising.
Based on research conducted over a 12-week period between November 2011 and January 2012, this study employed a qualitative, mixed method approach using literature review, in-depth interviews with 19 media practitioners, academics, activists and commentators; and, a content analysis of the news and current affairs output of BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic, focusing on three major events at different stages of the Syrian revolt.”
March 2012
Report by the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, commissioned by Internews
Authors: Juliette Harkin, Kevin Anderson, Libby Morgan, Briar Smith
40 pages
W. Boyd Rayward: The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and international Organization (1975)
Filed under book | Tags: · biography, document, information, knowledge, knowledge production, library
A biographical study of the life and work of Paul Otlet (1868-1944) focusing on his work for documentation and the creation of a range of international organizations.
Published for the International Federation for Documentation by the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (Viniti), Moscow, 1975
FID Publication 520
390 pages
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