%0 Thesis %B PhD Thesis %D 2004 %T Hacking Practices and Software Development: A Social Worlds Analysis of ICT Innovation and the Role of Free/Libre Open Source Software %A Yu-wei Lin %X Through use of social worlds theory and qualitative research methods, this thesis explores hackers' practices and their relationships with the computing world and the wider society from a socio-technical perspective. Through engaging with a constellation of open source practices (OSPs), actors and actants communicate, negotiate, and shape each other?s identities, practices and understandings of the innovation structure and system in various aspects. In examining the diverse articulations and performances in which hacker culture and hacker identity are both reflected and constructed, the thesis tries to contextualise and deconstruct the ICT architecture we take for granted, as well as the innovations made possible by this architecture. %B PhD Thesis %8 September %G eng %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/lin2.pdf