This article sheds light on the formation of the Nordic game industry between 1990 and
2005. The first long-lasting game development companies within the region emerged in the …

The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games
though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through …

The Finnish national school curriculum, effective from 2004, does not include any topics
related to Computer Science (CS). To alleviate the problem that school students are not able …

In this chapter, Wasiak shows how Polish users appropriated home computer technology
during the 1980s in a social, political, and economic climate highly influenced by the Soviet …

The study takes look at Assembly, a large-scale LAN and demo party founded in 1992 and
organized annually in Helsinki, Finland. Assembly is used as a case study to explore the …

This licentiate thesis deals with a worldwide community of hobbyists called the demoscene.
The activities of the community in question revolve around real-time multimedia …

The chapter deals with the domestication of technology from a hobbyist viewpoint. The
authors discuss how a specific hobbyist group, the demoscene, adopted home computers …

Numerous authors ranging from hobbyists to researchers have tried to explain the roots of
the demoscene in their texts. Most often such histories have been brief and almost identical …

This paper introduces the idea of craftsmanship as a way of understanding the shaping and
re-shaping of code as a material crafting practice. We build our analysis on a qualitative …

During the early and mid-1980s, a home computing practice of use and openness of
software emerged in Greece. This computer culture both reflected and reinforced the local …