Negotiating Silicon Valley Ideologies, Contesting “American” Civic Hacki…

Drawing from interviews and textual analysis of civic hacking in South Korea, I examine how civic hackers attempted to make alternative forms of tech-oriented civic action while reconfiguring their relationship with the global hegemonic discourse of civic hacking. I found that Korean civic hackers' struggle and desire as precarious IT workers in hierarchical civic culture, authoritarian politic…