From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

By F. Turner. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data (2017, background): “Not just because of its position as the heart of technological innovation and entrepreneurialism in the contemporary world but also because of its broader cultural and historical legacy as a site of overlapping countercultural movements (Turner, 2006; Zandbergen, 2011).”
Collective knowledge systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web (2008, positive): “Other early pioneers of the human-machine model of collective intelligence include Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, Buckminster Fuller, the consummate inventor and system thinker [11] , and Stewart Brand, creator of the first large virtual community on the Internet [37] .”
Production, Consumption, Prosumption (2010, background): “In either case, its basic premises – most importantly, freedom – stand opposed to capitalist organizations that seek to control and exploit those involved in it (Turner, 2006).”
#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures (2017, background): “Geek masculinity also embraces a kind of techno/cyberlibertarian ethos, valuing the notion of a rational, autonomous individual and meritocratic idealism (Turner, 2006).”
Seeing without knowing: Limitations of the transparency ideal and its application to algorithmic accountability (2018, background): “…the performance of “open” technological cultures has many chapters, including the growth of early virtual communities from counter-culture roots (Turner, 2006), the pursuit of radical transparency by open source programming collectives (Kelty, 2008), and Wikipedia editing communities (Tkacz,…”
Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance (2019, background): “For example, the hackers of the early computer industry intersected the seemingly antithetical worlds of cold war military research culture and 1960s counterculture, ushering in new technologies and organizational forms to translate these technologies into products (Turner, 2010).”
Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (2013, background): “The hacker, born at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in the late 1950s and early 1960s, grew under the influence of the American countercultural movements of the 1970s (Turner 2006; on the links with biology see Vettel 2008) and is not just an independent, curiosity-driven innovator with a proact”
Children and young people’s rights in the digital age: An emerging agenda (2017, background): “…association, privacy, information and equality as an ethical-political alternative to the assumption of state and/or commercial power online, thereby countering the dominant political economy that defines society offline (and, increasingly, online; see Mansell, 2012; Turner, 2006; Van Dijck, 2013).”