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Jakko Kemper

New ecologies

The advent of new technologies often comes paired with wild utopianism and rampant negativity – it is usually only after the hype has died down that people are starting to think about the material, environmental and ecological dimensions of...
By Jakko Kemper on 11/14/13 Comments Off on New ecologies

‘Users of the World, Unite!’; a step in the right direction?

The increasingly widespread use of social media has given rise to new interactional conditions and the creation of new discursive spaces. These developments also provide firms and organizations with new communicative opportunities and new ways of generating profit. Given...
By Jakko Kemper on 10/11/13 Comments Off on ‘Users of the World, Unite!’; a step in the right direction?

Website defacement and the ethos of the unknown

Website defacement (along with practices like distributed denial of service attacks and password cracking) is one of the most frequently deployed methods used by hackers. Perhaps the most infamous example of this practice is the defacing of the PayPal...
By Jakko Kemper on 09/12/13 Comments Off on Website defacement and the ethos of the unknown