A nexus of Cyber-Geography and Cyber-Psychology: Topos/"Notopia" and identity in hacking

Authors:
Fivos Papadimitriou
Affiliations:
Hellenic Open University, Mailing address: 13a Aedonon Street, Athens 11475, Greece
Venue:
Computers in Human Behavior
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper explores the Cyber-Psychological and Cyber-Geographic aspects of hacking and hacktivism. An examination of the literature related to hackers and hacking reveals a complex nexus of spatial (including cyber-spatial such as ''Notopia'') and psychological aspects of hacking, from which emerges a central question of how humans perceive and manipulate their cyber-identities. Concealing (real and cyber) identities is typical in hacking. With our progressive acculturation with identity-less and place-less modes of existence, our cyber-identities through time may be studied from within John Locke's criterion of ''memory'' and the spatial-geographical criterion of identity.