Gabriella Coleman

Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill University, Department of Art History & Communication Studies
Anthropology of digital media, hackers and the law
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Writings

  • Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking - Princeton University Press. Forthcoming, November 2012)
  • Everything You Know about Anonymous is Wrong - Al Jazeera, May 2012
  • Am I Anonymous? - Limn, May 2012
  • Hackers - The Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Digital Textuality. Forthcoming 2012
  • Anonymous - Glossary of Network Ecologies, Forthcoming, May 2012
  • Our Weirdness is Free, The logic of Anonymous—online army, agent of chaos, and seeker of justice. - 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)
  • 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
  • Anonymous' hack attacks make world sit up, take notice - The Gazette, March 2012
  • Arrests Sow Mistrust Inside a Clan of Hackers - New York Times, March 2012
  • Colemanon Anonymous and Lulzsec - Surprisingly Free Podcast, March 2012
  • 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
  • TheMany 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, March 2012
  • 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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