Haeckse

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Haeckse , also hackse , is a name for female hackers . The expression is a made-up word that is often used in the hacker scene, which is derived from the original hacker and alludes to the German word Hexe .

In particular, the word Haecksen also stands for an association of female members of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).

Development history

Within the “purely white male phenomenon” of the “hacking culture”, female hackers are generally still perceived as exceptional. In her study Gender, Ethics and Information technology , Alison Adam provided an initially simple explanation for the fact that hackers were primarily male and white in the early days, i.e. in the 1950s and 1960s and up to the 1980s : Access to available computers was initially only available on campus in the USA and they could only be used at night. Access was therefore just as difficult for women with children as it was for ethnic minorities who avoided nightly campus visits for fear of racist attacks .

In his study Hacker - Computer as a Tool and Symbol of Power, however, Michael Nagenborg points out that "hacking" was still considered an almost exclusively male phenomenon in the 1990s, and conversely, raises the question of whether computers are among other things This is why it is considered a “male thing” because “hacking” is considered a male activity. He sees the low proportion of women among the hackers as a contradiction to the egalitarian so-called “hacker ethic”. Based on Michel Foucault's analyzes, Nagenborg examines the general “power relations” and comes to the conclusion that the form of work ethic and the high level of training required by hackers as well as the emphasis on the technical aspect of “hacking” - as a defense against criminalization - are women do not make it easy to identify yourself as a hacker. The pathologization of hackers in science and the dissemination of a corresponding image of hackers in the mass media would intensify this effect.

In the meantime, however, female hackers have become an integral part of the scene, which Nagenborg according to Foucault could interpret as meaning that “'Haecksen' are no longer based on traditional role models and B. Do not perceive 'woman' and 'technology' as a contradiction. Because according to Foucault, redefining oneself is a very promising form of resistance. "

Haecksen at the CCC

As Haecksen a merger of female members called the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The expression was coined in 1988 by Rena Tangens and Barbara Thoens and referred to the union of women members they founded within the Chaos Computer Club. Since 2009 the term can also be found in the scene dictionary of the Duden Verlag .

The Haecksen's goal is to show that girls and women can use technology creatively as a matter of course and that the image in people's minds that hackers are male is not true.

The Haecksen meet annually at the CCC's Chaos Communication Congress and organize their own projects. Regional events also take place, for example in Aalen in 2003 . Since they see themselves as the virtual experience exchange group ( ERFA group ) of the CCC, their most important means of communication is a mailing list .

literature

  • Annette Treibel u. a. (Ed.): Gender medienkompetent . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14931-8 , pp. 109, 111-123.
  • Rena Tangens : Androcentrism on the Net . In: Internet course book - connections to business and politics . Science and Culture, 1996.

Web links

Wiktionary: Haeckse  - explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duden - The new dictionary of scene languages . Dudenverlag Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich, ISBN 978-3-411-71092-8 . See: tagesanzeiger.ch .
  2. ↑ See Alison Adam: Gender, Ethics and Information technology . Palgrave Macmillian, Houndmills / New York 2005, p. 139.
  3. ↑ a b c Cf. Michael Nagenborg: Hacker - Computer as a tool and symbol of power . In: Annette Treibel u. a. (Ed.): Gender medienkompetent . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14931-8 , pp. 111-123.
  4. ↑ Heike Schmidt : "A free space in the furthest corner of the cellar". the daily newspaper , December 30, 2005, accessed on November 11, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Kristina Debelius: "Netzfrauen: Die Häcksen des Cyberspace". Der Spiegel , June 17, 2006, accessed November 11, 2009 .
  6. ↑ "" Abflashen "," bitchen "," Casual Sex ": Duden's new scene dictionary". Der Standard , October 7, 2009, accessed November 11, 2009 .
  7. ^ The "Haecksen" in Aalen , report from June 16, 2003 at Stadt Aalen.Online, accessed on November 13, 2009.