Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy : The Many Faces of Anonymous (Paperback)

from Shutzie27

Gabriella Coleman took on the incredibly daunting task of studying and chronicling the mercurial, elusive hacktivist collective Anonymous and then sharing that research with the general public. And, astoundingly, Coleman mostly succeeds. She writes very clearly and speaks with authority and thoug...

from rivkat

Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous: Free review copy. Coleman spent a lot of time in IRC chatrooms with various aspects of/members of Anonymous, as well as some in-person interviews with key figures. She clearly really likes them (“for the most part, a f...

from DavidWineberg

Anonymous is almost certainly not what you think it is. You have to live it to understand it, its implications, its functioning, and its place in society. Gabrielle Coleman lived it, as a fully disclosed academic anthropologist. This is her story as much as theirs. The structure of Anonymous is l...

from TeaTimeCoder

Surprising level of understanding of the anonymous culture (unheard of anywhere in media). It concentrates on the bigger players and loosely associated groups but still mentions the ideas they grew out from. A lot of it however is painfully pretentious , "quoting DFW" levels of pretentious. The ...

from SebastianHagelstein

This book shows well what the hacktivist culture is about. It shows events and episodes mainly about the activist/hacker/prank group Anonymous and illustrates both the good and the bad in the hacktivist movement.