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

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

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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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