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| Changes in the Image of Hackers in Sci-fi Movies: from Anti-culture Figures to Saviors and then to Security Experts |
| HUANG Ming-fen |
| College of Humanities, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005 |
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Abstract Hackers emerge in the information revolution with the computer as the leader. Hackers share many similarities with punks, phreaks, and swordsmen, but what is different about them is that hackers affirm their appeal for independence, emphasize technical tendency, and moral objectives. “Hacker’s mirror” is a metaphor for the function of sci-fi movies, which contains three possible meanings: the mirror used by the director to project the image of the hacker, the mirror used by the audience to observe and recognize the hacker, and the mirror used by the hacker to project or understand the world. It is reflective of the specific way hackers observe the world, because this way is not only characteristic of the hacker’s image, but also the starting point to understand hackers, and could be valuable for hackers’ introspection. The above-mentioned method is characterized by seeing the daylight from the darkness ( “黑”), seeing the subject from the object (“客”), and seeing the reality from the virtual world (“镜”). With the further development of information revolution, hackers in the creative production of sci-fi movies may have more diverse images due to wider scope, internal differentiation and role changes.
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Received: 05 January 2020
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