Case Study
Are hackers inherently threatening?
Write a 1,000+ word MLA-format paper based on Aaron Swartz and Brian
Knappenberger’s documentary The Internet’s Own Boy (2014). The paper is due November 16th
2015. Begin gathering your own sources relevant to your personal understanding of the film into
a preliminary bibliography (there’s a sample on Blackboard) including at least ten items on a
topic of personal interest to you pertaining to the case of Aaron Swartz. A bibliography and a
provisional thesis are due on November 9th.
Sources:
https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008#page/n0/mode/2up
https://www.wired.com/2011/07/swartz-arrest/
https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Super-Hackers-Truth-or-reality
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/aaron-swarts-work-internets-own-boy
https://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/civil.html