http://www.epistemographer.com/2005/12/01/hackers-and-tinkerers-and-amateurs%e2%80%a6oh-my/ Mapping knowledge online since 1999 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:38:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.epistemographer.com/2005/12/01/hackers-and-tinkerers-and-amateurs%e2%80%a6oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-1784 Epistemographer » Blog Archive » Amateurs and Peer Production Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:33:05 +0000 http://www.epistemographer.com/?p=256#comment-1784 [...] I came to this point mainly through my work on amateurs and technology. Building from a dissertation chapter on videophile hobbyist culture during the early history of the VCR, I’ve grown increasingly interested in the question of what makes an amateur distinct from other users, and the formation of communities among amateurs. Rather than rehash my general riff on amateurs here, I’ll just post a 2-page ‘Think Piece’ that I published in the Annals of Computer History earlier this year – though a bit heavy on the “call to arms”, it lays out the basic territory I’m trying to explore. [...] [...] I came to this point mainly through my work on amateurs and technology. Building from a dissertation chapter on videophile hobbyist culture during the early history of the VCR, I’ve grown increasingly interested in the question of what makes an amateur distinct from other users, and the formation of communities among amateurs. Rather than rehash my general riff on amateurs here, I’ll just post a 2-page ‘Think Piece’ that I published in the Annals of Computer History earlier this year – though a bit heavy on the “call to arms”, it lays out the basic territory I’m trying to explore. [...]

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