From: Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> Subject: [Air-L] Literature/cases request: Obligations to know (e.g., RTFM) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:32:06 -0500
I'm interested in cultural norms and expressions of an "obligation to know." In the hacker realm this is well developed: clue (cluestick, clue-by-four), asshats, newbies (newbs), RTFM (Read the "Fine" Manual), lazyweb, etc. In minority (e.g., race, sex, gender) studies there's the notion of privilege, *-centrism, and the idea that it is not the obligation of the oppressed to have to educate the ignorant majority. In popular culture, there's "Topic 101."
characteristically this 101 was the one which i had to look up. so i am not really popular. :D
Can you offer any other examples?
#suckless IRC channel (of the suckless.org software community): "X: this is not kind of comunity that lubes itself up to get into someones ass" "Y: Somehow people manage to get very stunted that they just might not be target audiance of something" if that's good for you, "elitism" / "elite" may be good key word. maxigas, kiberpunk -- * * |metatron * * |research * * |unit FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166