Gabriella Coleman

Writings

Our Weirdness is Free - Triple Canopy, January 2012
Hacker Politics and Publics - Public Culture, November 2011.
Another tech pioneer, Dennis Ritchie, passes - Aljazeera English, October 2011 (with Chris Kelty)
Is it a Crime? The Trangressive Politics of Hacking in Anonymous - OWNI.eu, News, Augmented, October 2011 (with Micahel Ralph)
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Princeton University Press (forthcoming fall 2012)
The Ethics of Digital Direct Action - Aljazeera English, September 2011<
Is Anonymous Anarchy? - OWNI.eu, News, Augmented, August 2011
"Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action." Part of the "Politics in the Age of Secrecy and Transparency" Cluster (edited by Gabriella Coleman). The New Everyday
Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls and the Politics of Transgression and Spectacle. In The Social Media Reader, ed. Michael Mandiberg. New York: NYU Press (forthcoming)
Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media. Annual Review of Anthropology. 39: 1-16, (2010)
Hacking In-Person: The Ritual Character of Conferences and the Distillation of a Life-World. Anthropological Quarterly, Winter (2010)
Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers. Cultural Anthropology. 24(3): 420-454 (2009)
Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism. Anthropological Theory, Vol. 8, No. 3, 255-277 (2008) (with Alex Golub)
The Politics of Rationality: Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry. In Tactical Biopolitics. Kavita Phillip and Beatriz de Costa (editors). Cambridge: MIT Press (2008)
Los Temps d'Indymedia. Multitudes. (21): 41-N48, May (2005)
Indymedia's Independence: From Activist Media to Free Software (English Version of Los Temps d'Indymedia). Multitudes. (21): 41-N48, May (2005)
The Social Production of Ethics in Debian and Free Software Communities. In Free and Open Source Software Development. Stefan Koch (ed.). Idea group, (2004) (with Mako Hill)
The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast. Anthropology Quarterly. 77(03): 507-519, Summer (2004)
How Free Became Open and Everything Else Under the Sun. M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, July (2004) (with Mako Hill)

News and Commentary

Gabriella Coleman on Anonymous -CBC Spark March 2012

Arrests Sow Mistrust Inside a Clan of Hackers -New York Times, March 2012

Colemanon Anonymous and Lulzsec -Surprisingly Free Podcast

Arrests Fail to Stymie Anonymous Hackers - PRI's The World, March, 2012

Word Watch Hacker - On the Media, September, 2011

Anonymous Comes Out In The Open - NPR by Scott Neuman, September, 2011

Digital Anthropology - Podcast interview w/ Thomas Lohninger, August/September 2011

Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line - New York Times by Nick Bilton, August, 2011

Anonymous Targets BART, But What Exactly is "Anonymous" Anyway? - KQED News by Lisa Pickoff-White, August, 2011

NPP111: Gabriella Coleman über Anonymous - English Podcast by Netzpolitik, August, 2011

The Many Moods of Anonymous - On The Media, March, 2011

Anonymous and the Arab uprisings - Al Jazeera by Yasmine Ryan, May, 2011

Interview with hacker anthropologist Biella Coleman - BoingBoing by The Command Line, January, 2011

What It's Like to Participate in Anonymous' Actions - The Atlantic, December, 2010

The Anthropology of Hackers - The Atlantic, September, 2010

Videos

Lulzsec Cyberactivists arrested -Democracy Now August 2011.

Hacktivisms Global Reach- Democracy Now August 2011.

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'I did it for the Lulz! but I stayed for the outrage:' Anonymous, the Politics of Spectacle, and Geek Protests against the Church of Scientology. - MIT Tech TV
Plenary: Crowd Building - MIT Tech TV

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