When I think of hackers I think of someone hiding in a dark room, in an undisclosed location. I think that most people may share this same vision. Hackers are seen by most as some sort of illicit hobby. Naturally, I was intrigued by this article. Hackers in general usually invoke some sort of fear in most people. They give people a sense of insecurity, we feel vulnerable. Parrish sought to normalize the role of hackers in a sense. She went as far as to revise the ethics of a hacker.
There was one section that I could completely identify with, and this was the section that mentioned transcription. I have a little experience with a couple of transcription apps. I used them last semester to transcribe interviews, and I completely agree that transcribing is not an exact science so to speak. I found that the diction, dialect, rate, pitch, and inflection made the transcription process difficult for the apps that I used.
Work Cited
Parrish, Allison. 2016. “Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic.” Open Hardware Summit presentation