E. GABRIELLA COLEMAN’s scientific contributions

... To advance empirically on this question, it is key to recognize that contemporary participatory processes are more a cause of the digitization of society, rather than a consequence. Indeed, participatory processes are at the root of the 'hacker' movement, which was born in the late 1950s and has profoundly shaped the digital revolution [15,16]. Historically, the hacker movement takes its deep roots back to the emergence of a strong post-World War II counterculture born out of the disillusionment of American intellectuals following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and more broadly by a rejection of war [17]. ...

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Computational diplomacy: how ‘hackathons for good’ feed a participatory future for multilateralism in the digital age