#Aoir2016 Internet Rules!

GENERATIONS OF DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT: COMMUNITIES, USERS, HACKTIVISTS AND GAMERS.
O'Riordan, Kate; Bassett, Caroline; Jordan, Timothy; Fortune, Stephen
University of Sussex, UK

The panel takes the collective theme of generations, and examines contradictions and continuities across them, as an approach to looking at the cultural politics of digital media in the current moment. The panel addresses the broader conference themes of internet codification and rulemaking, technical protocols, platforms and conventions of online communities by looking back. The panel thus, reflects on histories and genealogies of rule-making/breaking, creative resistance and forms of technical, social, and cultural hacking through a reflection on case studies that focus on generations of online community, user configuration, hacktivism and gaming. Research across these four areas has been crucial in shaping the field of internet studies as well as digital culture and a space to reflect across these enables both a commentary on the trajectories and contradictions of generations of academic work and the material instantiations and other histories of these phenomena. The papers bring together research across media studies, information politics, critical theory, HCI and contemporary history to provide a commentary on the politics of correctionism, transgression, compliance, creativity and identity in relation to contemporary digital culture:
• IN LAMBDAMOO DID XEROX PARC: OR WHAT USED TO BE NEW ABOUT DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER
• THE SENSOR-USER SPECTRUM: GENERATIONS OF USER CONFIGURATIONS
• TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSGRESSION: HACKTIVISM'S CHANGING PRACTICES
• GENDER, GAMING HISTORY AND GENERATIONS OF THEORY