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From Zero, By “Nobody”: Understanding a Civic Hacking Community in Taiwan

Fri, May 25, 14:00 to 15:15, Hilton Prague, Floor: LL, Congress Hall I

Abstract

This study focuses on a civic hacking community based in Taiwan to shed new light on cutting-edge topics like transforming citizenship styles in the digital era, organizational hybridity in contemporary political groups, and data activism. Through in-depth interviews with active contributors of the community, the author shows that civic hacking is a meaningful form of political engagement that takes advantage of the massive data available. The study also finds high levels of hybridity in g0v contributors’ mode of political engagement and the structure of the community.

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