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What is Maker Culture

Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific
The growth of the maker movement and do it yourself (DIY) enthusiasm has developed exponentially since the first Maker Faire (2005) AU92: The in-text citation "Maker Faire (2005)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. in San Francisco. Maker culture reflects a popular cultural surge in hack space and hacker orientated activities, extending its reach into the fields of design and fashion.
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Performing the Internet: Post-Internet Folklore
Nancy Mauro-Flude (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch010
Abstract
This chapter imagines alternative possibilities for digital humanities scholarship. Beyond technological pragmatism, the inquiry instead points to a richer engagement with digital infrastructure that can occur through the application of software literacy and expanded cultural practices derived from speculative traditions of thinking and feminist internet criticism. New methodologies are introduced, providing experimental models of engagement that allow for distinctive forms of performative and the development of dynamic and diverse knowledge.
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