The Revolution of Hackers

• Main Authors: Chen-Hua Chen, 陳貞樺
• Other Authors: Chao-Che Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94558052254157906786

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 103 === During these years, there are groups of people who have coded professionally, begin to contribute their ability to Taiwan society. These engineers come from different fields, including web developers, high-classed programmers, elite hackers and so on. The same character of these people is the passion on reforming the society. When fire accidents happened in Formosa Fun Coast, these hackers immediately create an infomation system, which provides the details of the victims and hospitals to help people organize the separated information. They also use the software of pattern-match system and the helps fromcrowds power, turning six hundred thousand campaign finance profiles to be digitalized. It makes politics more transparent. They are good at coding ability to solve problems. When “bugs” happened in Taiwan society, they would find it and “debug”. Although they are neglected , these hackers still dedicate their professionals to create the “keyboard-revolution”. This in-depth report focuses on these hackers, describing their backgrounds and kinds of “keyboard-revolution”. Based on interviewing, each chapter will tell different stories about different programming groups. In the end, this report also discuss the development and the dilemma of participatory democracy online in Taiwan.