Readings
Who is Douglas Rushkoff?
Spacewar, the first video game was created by Steve Russell on this kind of computer.
What is a PDP-1?
In 2016, this percentage of the US population was getting their news through Facebook.
What is 44 percent?
Commons-based Peer Production is a model of socioeconomic production in which large numbers of people work this way.
What is cooperatively?
A hacker wearing this color hat helps organizations identify weak spots and improve their security measures.
What is white?
Narrative collapse refers to this.
What is the loss of linear stories?
The first floppy drives were able to store 160 of these.
What is kilobytes?
This was the first real time chat service on the internet.
What is IRC?
What is $335 billion?
This was the birth place of hacker culture.
What is the Tech Model Railroad Club?
Barbara Ehrenreich shows how relentless promotion requires this type of deception.
What is self-deception?
Sketchpad, the ancestor for modern computer-aided design, was designed by this man.
Who is Ivan Sutherland?
This social networking site inspired the creation of MySpace.
What is Friendster?
Peer to Peer Lending allows individuals to lend and borrow money without going through this type of institution.
What is a traditional bank?
This legendary phone phreak was known as Cap'n Crunch.
Who is John Draper?
Lovink says this is no longer judged in a vacuum but automatically read within the political, cultural, and media context in which it operates.
What is content?
What is the cracking scene?
A small change in DC Comics' Brave and the Bold #35 to include this in publish letters spawned self-published fan magazines and comic book conventions.
What is a full name and address?
This ancient greek philosopher believed money was intended to be used in exchange but not to increase at interest.
Who is Aristotle?
This hacker was arrested for charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony for downloading academic articles with a guest account at MIT.
Who is Aaron Swartz?
What are databases?
The first documented use of emoticons was on this platform.
What is Usenet?
This is the life blood of social media.
What is user generated content?
This carpooling company is named for it's rating scale for the chattiness of drivers.
What is BlaBlaCar?
This term is used to describe an unskilled individual that uses scripts or programs developed by others to attack computer and network systems.
What is a script kiddie?