ABSTRACT
This chapter moves the focus from "ordinary" young people and parents to the appropriation of digital music technologies by a specific counterculture: the punk movement. It revolves around the question of whether the Internet and other digital technologies have been taken up and utilized as an opportunity to strengthen and renew the cultural and political practices of the punk movement. The chapter explores the relationship between the punk movement and the hacker movement. It then examines some questions through an analysis of the appropriation of ICTs by the Norwegian punk scene. They are: What is viewed as the morally "correct" way of dealing with ICT in the counterculture, and how is it distinguished from the "ordinary" youth's more "average" way of dealing with digital technologies? How has the introduction of digital technology transformed the counterculture, and how have the moral values of the punk movement influenced the uptake of the technology?
