TY - GEN
T1 - Hacking difference in Indonesia
T2 - 2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019
AU - Kaiying, Cindy Lin
AU - Lindtner, Silvia
AU - Wuschitz, Stefanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/6/18
Y1 - 2019/6/18
N2 - The paper offers an ethnographic account of racial and cultural difference as sites to contest dominant practices of computing and technology. Specifically, we focus on how a collective of Indonesian biohackers position the care labor of a generation of women (referred to as Nenek-nenek in Bahasa Indonesia) to retrace the origins and boundaries of their making, hacking, and citizen science practices. The paper's contribution is to bring the study of the political economy of hacking and making into conversation with themes of racial and cultural difference in postcolonial computing across HCI, STS, and design. More specifically, the paper examines how Indonesian biohackers position situated histories and expertise as properly technological. Further, we show how their articulation of Indonesian difference was in turn appropriated by foreign hackers and commentators to envision tech futures against the status quo.
AB - The paper offers an ethnographic account of racial and cultural difference as sites to contest dominant practices of computing and technology. Specifically, we focus on how a collective of Indonesian biohackers position the care labor of a generation of women (referred to as Nenek-nenek in Bahasa Indonesia) to retrace the origins and boundaries of their making, hacking, and citizen science practices. The paper's contribution is to bring the study of the political economy of hacking and making into conversation with themes of racial and cultural difference in postcolonial computing across HCI, STS, and design. More specifically, the paper examines how Indonesian biohackers position situated histories and expertise as properly technological. Further, we show how their articulation of Indonesian difference was in turn appropriated by foreign hackers and commentators to envision tech futures against the status quo.
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U2 - 10.1145/3322276.3322339
DO - 10.1145/3322276.3322339
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85070643844
T3 - DIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
SP - 1571
EP - 1582
BT - DIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 23 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -