rural subjectivities, specifically in the U.S.human-environment interactions, specifically involving phenomenological approaches/attention to sensory perception and aestheticsnarrative narrative narrativehow/when/where certain kinds of knowledge come to be authoritative--and how/when/where/why certain kinds of knowledge are NOT authoritative in some settings when they are in broader society (i.e.
Hackers / Hacktivism / Radical Engineers / Hackerspaces / MakerspacesHackers and hacker culture caught my interest during undergrad research. First, software engineers appeared interesting as ‘epistemological others’ who could actually assemble and take apart hardware/software, instead of writing media studies research papers about them. Second, it was an exploration of the digital infrastructures, online subcultures and practices of sharing that I had myself grown up in, but also seemingly matured out of.
