Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Cotents; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; The rise of hacking and making; New tools and technologies; Experiencing hackerspaces; Where the book is going; Notes; 2: Craft, DIY and Active Leisure; The New Domesticity; Serious leisure; The pleasures of making; Notes; 3: Histories of Hacking and Making; The rise of hackerspaces; From makerspaces to DIY bio; Making a movement; Our research; Notes; 4: How Do Hackerspaces Work?; Origin stories; 'Do-ocracy'; Becoming a member; Online, offline; Notes; 5: The Hacker Spirit; The hacker spirit.
'Anyone can hack'Notes; 6: How Do Hackerspaces Really Work?; Experiencing community; Community and social capital; 'What's that in the fridge?'; Notes; 7: Exclusion; Empowerment and exclusion; The rise of feminist hackerspaces; Crafting community; The dark side of social capital; Notes; 8: Cool Projects; The role of the project; What makes a cool project?; The Pleasure of the Hack; Notes; 9: Emancipation and Commodification; Self-actualization and serious leisure; On not being political; Commodifying the counter-culture; Hacking, governments and educators; Notes; 10: Who Is a Hacker?
The novelty of hacking and makingOverlapping communities; 'Hacking and making are buzzwords right now'; Notes; 11: Conclusion; Community; A spirit of the times; Faultlines and tensions; Emancipation and commodification; Collective action and individualism; Hacking and making are awesome; Notes; Index; End User License Agreement.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction
There Are a Number of Places This Book Could Begin
2.Craft, DIY and Active Leisure
It Started With Stitch `n' Bitch
3.Histories of Hacking and Making
There Should be Diversity in the Hackerspace Movement, He Says
4.How Do Hackerspaces Work?
Hacker and Makerspaces Can Look, Feel and Smell Quite Different
5.The Hacker Spirit
I'm a Big Advocate for this Sort of Lifestyle and Culture
6.How Do Hackerspaces Really Work?
They Don't Have a Sense of Community that You Find in a Hackerspace
7.Exclusion
Whatever It Is Females Like to Talk About
8.Cool Projects
Rather, It Was a Trojan Horse
9.Emancipation and Commodification
This Was a Movement That Could Do Something Good
10.Who Is a Hacker?
No One Is Claiming that Involvement in a Quilting Circle Is Going to Prompt a New Industrial Revolution
11.Conclusion
Two Reasons Hacking Is Timely, and Three Reasons It Is Conflicted.

A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies like 3D printers, and the way in which they are being used in hacker and makerspaces. But why is the power of hacking and making an idea whose time has come? Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement takes the rise of the maker movement as its starting point. Hacker and makerspaces, fab labs, and DIY bio spaces are emerging all over the world. Based on a study of hacker and makerspaces across the US, the book explores cultures of hacking and making in the context of wider social changes, arguing that excitement about the maker movement is not just about the availability of new technologies, but the kinds of citizens we are expected to be.