“The Freedom of Information Hacked: Console Cowboys, Computer Wizards, and Personal Freedom in the Digital Age” examines depictions of computer hackers in fiction, the media, and popular culture, assessing how such depictions both influence and reflect popular conceptions of hackers and what they do. In doing so, the dissertation demonstrates the central concerns of hacker stories—concerns about digital security, privacy, and the value of information—have become the concerns of digital culture as a whole, hackers laying bare collective hopes and fears regarding digital networks.
Dissertation
The freedom of information hacked: console cowboys, computer wizards, and personal freedom in the digital age
University of Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
Spring 2016
DOI: 10.17077/etd.82ml-fgdx
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The freedom of information hacked: console cowboys, computer wizards, and personal freedom in the digital age
- Creators
- Nicholas M. Kelly - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Brooks Landon (Advisor)Loren Glass (Committee Member)Stephen Voyce (Committee Member)Kembrew McLeod (Committee Member)Dee Morris (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- English
- Date degree season
- Spring 2016
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.82ml-fgdx
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- vii, 237 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2016 Nicholas M. Kelly
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 10/31/2019
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-237).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
”The Freedom of Information Hacked: Console Cowboys, Computer Wizards, and Personal Freedom in the Digital Age” examines depictions of computer hackers in fiction, the media, and popular culture, assessing how such depictions both influence and reflect popular conceptions of hackers and what they do. In doing so, the dissertation demonstrates the central concerns of hacker stories—concerns about digital security, privacy, and the value of information—have become the concerns of digital culture as a whole, hackers laying bare collective hopes and fears regarding digital networks.
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9983777095702771
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