ABSTRACT
The perception of knowledge as gendered is at the centre of feminist theory. This has been a critical position, allowing feminists to undermine existing bodies of knowledge as male-biased and to argue the need for more women in knowledge-producing institutions. Masculinity or maleness becomes a pre-given factor that shapes technology, independent of the process of design and development. Male shaping of technology has been deconstructed by applying concepts like control and hierarchy. Through an analysis of a male, Norwegian hacker culture the chapter explores the interrelationship between gender and technology, or, to be more precise, between maleness and computing. The hackers emerged as a possibly important example of an extremely masculine technological culture. In science and technology studies the concept 'hacker' describes a particular infatuation with computers usually found among young men in a university environment. There is competition either between the hacker and the game software, or between the hacker and other players.
