ABSTRACT
The image of the hacker in the popular imagination is primarily the result of mass media reporting (particularly of high-profile hacker cases) and popular culture representations. Those representations often portray hackers as criminals, playing on cultural stereotypes and rampant fears that over-reliance on technology makes us vulnerable. There is, however, a second, more important, characterization of hackers that serves to relocate them within a very particular set of discursive constructs. Specifically, in the discourse of law enforcement (and media reports stemming from law enforcement), hackers are often described in terms that relate to physical presence, particularly physical presence which focuses on their bodies.
