Nor is Anonymous defined by utter randomness. We can, in fact, track and examine the rise and fall of trends, tensions in and between networks, frictions between those with technical power and those without, and contradictions in the particular strategies for social and political engagement participants routinely deployed and discontinued. That Menn fails to do so is especially troubling since the specific form of hacking that his investigative piece discusses in greatest detail--hacking-as-leaking--only became integral to the tactical political culture of the AnoOps network in late winter/early spring 2012, and even then only because of a particular set of events that had transpired on the AnonOps network.
Showing posts with label Coleman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coleman. Show all posts
Is it a Crime? The Transgressive Politics of Hacking in Anonymous / Biella Coleman and Michael Ralph
...As one prominent Anon put it, in response to some of the hacking operations, "Anonymous is not Unanimous."
The Dramatic Face of Wikileaks / Biella Coleman
Wikileaks: It has caused a firestorm of debate among very different sectors of the population and about different topics: from the state of journalism (is it broken is it not?); to how much secrecy is acceptable for diplomatic negotiations, the role of the leak in changing diplomacy and a question as to whether it will be good for scholarship (I think it will be but for different reasons parlayed there).
It has induced rage, growing support among Internet enthusiasts, including anonymous who have/has kicked off Operation Avenge Assange and among liberals it has caused "soul-searching" crisis and confusion as they can't fully support, nor fully decry Wikileaks. Thankfully some of commentary comes in the form of video humor and of course, one of the staples of the Internet, sad kittens.
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Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz / QUINN NORTON
They’ve created law enforcement excitement that’s verged on panic, given net and media pundits hyperbolic logorrhea about “cyber terrorism” and “cyber freedom”, and happily skipped between damn funny, deeply disturbing, and self-aggrandizing, depending on the mood of the hive mind at the moment.
But what is Anonymous?
NYU Professor and Anonymous researcher Biella Coleman compares Anonymous to the trickster god archetype.
“The trickster does exist across America, across Europe, really across the world and it is not in myth but in embodied in group and living practice: in that of the prankster, hacker, the phreaker, the troller (all of whom, have their own unique elements of course, but so does each trickster),” she wrote in Social Text.
Anonymous / Gabriella Coleman at TED Global
“Who is
Anonymous?” ...First of all, it’s not an organization with one or even a few
leaders at the helm. It’s a name adopted by various unrelated groups of hackers
and technologists to describe a whole range of actions, from hacks against
security firms to technical support for occupiers to those involved
in national revolutions. Subgroups such as Antisec, meanwhile, scour servers to
look for sensitive national, military or political information they can leak to
the world. What links the groups is a spirit of irreverence and disdain for the
law as it stands.
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