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What The Hack Is A Hacker?, Paige Franklin, Ryan Adams, Caroline Henry
What The Hack Is A Hacker?, Paige Franklin, Ryan Adams, Caroline Henry
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
The purpose of this study is to examine the historical tendencies and characteristics of hackers to create a holistic definition of what it means to be a hacker. By analyzing the contents of the “Hacker Classics” list, it was determined that there is not a single, all-encompassing definition of what it means to be a hacker. Although there are common motivations and ideologies shared between many hackers, the definition of “hacker” continues to change as time and technology does.
Cultivating The Sustainably Gendered Self, Patrick Kenny
Cultivating The Sustainably Gendered Self, Patrick Kenny
Dissertations, 2014-2019
Traditional gender roles, and the extent to which they are rigidly enforced in a social context, can limit individual and group welfare and are linked to serious social issues such as mass-incarceration, domestic abuse, gang-participation, female genital mutilation, and honor killings (Abramsky et al., 2011; Hackett, 2011). This chapter focuses on the social construct of gender and the ways in which individual and societal beliefs about gender impact the well-being of the global community. A three-pronged approach (individual psychotherapy, group interventions, and education policy) offers a way to address the myriad gender-based challenges present in a number of cultures worldwide. …