Gabriella Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 79156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriella Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriella |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1679-8988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How has the fight for anonymity and privacy advanced since Snowden’s whistle-blowing
This article examines the legal, social, and political forces in a post-Snowden era that clarified the stakes around privacy and anonymity all while pulling more people into the orbit of a contemporary privacy and anonymity movement. It compares and contrasts the 100-year period in which US courts fleshed out free speech ideals and recent grass-roots privacy and anonymity initiatives that have come to reach a critical mass, highlighting the impor…
Hacktivisme: Les Geeks Montent Au Front
From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek
Hackers and their projects have become routine, authoritative, and public participants in our daily geopolitical goings-on. There are no obvious, much less given, explanations as to why a socially and economically privileged group of actors, once primarily defined by obscure tinkering and technical exploration, is now so willing to engage in popular media advocacy, traditional policy- and law-making, political tool building, and especially forms …
Piracy and Social Change: Roundtable Discussion
This roundtable discussion draws together researchers with an interest of overcoming purely juridical treatment of piracy in their work. Christopher Kelty and Gabriella Coleman consider the aspects of cyberculture, which conflictually engage with intellectual property rights, through various communities of technology practice, including hackers. Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi’s work on fair use addresses the growing opportunities for creato…
The anthropological trickster
Response to Hau Book Symposium on Coleman, Gabriella. 2014. Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous. London and New York: Verso
Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking
Once used exclusively to refer to people who staged fearsome Internet pranks, today the name “Anonymous” belongs to many individuals and groups engaging in diverse genres of collective action, ranging from online stunts and political campaigns to expediting in-person protests. Their interventions have included protesting the Church of Scientology, hacking into servers to scour for politically worthwhile information to leak, and providing technolo…
Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking
Hacker Politics and Publics
This article examines some of the attributes that mark geek and hacker politics as distinct from other domains of digitally based activism and offers an introductory framework to assess their political significance
The Hacker Conference: A Ritual Condensation and Celebration of a Lifeworld
This piece draws on ethnographic experience at various hacker conferences to rethink how face-to-face interactions work in concert with digital interactivity to constitute social worlds. Through a process of ritual condensation and emotional celebration, the conference works to perform and thus confirm what are otherwise more frequent, though more prosaic forms of virtual sociality. This focus allows me to decenter the historical priority placed …
Hacking - by Tim Jordan
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Hacking Tim Jordan Polity Press, New York, 2008$59.95 (hard), $19.95 (soft), pp. 200 Gabriella Coleman Gabriella Coleman 1New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 59, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages E19–E22, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01464.x Published: 10 December 2009
Code Is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers
In this essay, I examine the channels through which Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) developers reconfigure central tenets of the liberal tradition-and the meanings of both freedom and speech-to defend against efforts to constrain their productive autonomy. I demonstrate how F/OSS developers contest and specify the meaning of liberal freedom-especially free speech-through the development of legal tools and discourses within the context of th…
The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast
Refereed
Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (review)
Silicon Valley—known as a site that produces all things and ideas technological—has increasingly come under academic scrutiny as a region with its own unique cultural currents. Adding to this cultural history, Christine Finn's Artifacts presents an engaging "series of snapshots" with special attention to diverse material objects—billboards, orchards, computers, newspaper ads—as a means of reflecting on the people and places of Silicon Valley. Thr…
The Quintessential Role of Olmec in the Central Highlands of Mexico: A Refutation
The ceramic assemblage which characterizes the enigmatic Tlatilco burials is duplicated in the stratigraphy of the El Terror phase at Iglesia Vieja, Morelos, where two components have been isolated and defined. The earlier of the two is found to be regional, pre-eminent, and pre-Olmec, rather than Olmec-inspired as previously thought. Radiocarbon dates from charcoal associated with Olmec figurines and vessels are as early as those from the Olmec …
Code Is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers
In this essay, I examine the channels through which Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) developers reconfigure central tenets of the liberal tradition-and the meanings of both freedom and speech-to defend against efforts to constrain their productive autonomy. I demonstrate how F/OSS developers contest and specify the meaning of liberal freedom-especially free speech-through the development of legal tools and discourses within the context of th…
From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek
Hackers and their projects have become routine, authoritative, and public participants in our daily geopolitical goings-on. There are no obvious, much less given, explanations as to why a socially and economically privileged group of actors, once primarily defined by obscure tinkering and technical exploration, is now so willing to engage in popular media advocacy, traditional policy- and law-making, political tool building, and especially forms …
The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast
Refereed
Hacker Politics and Publics
This article examines some of the attributes that mark geek and hacker politics as distinct from other domains of digitally based activism and offers an introductory framework to assess their political significance
The Hacker Conference: A Ritual Condensation and Celebration of a Lifeworld
This piece draws on ethnographic experience at various hacker conferences to rethink how face-to-face interactions work in concert with digital interactivity to constitute social worlds. Through a process of ritual condensation and emotional celebration, the conference works to perform and thus confirm what are otherwise more frequent, though more prosaic forms of virtual sociality. This focus allows me to decenter the historical priority placed …
The anthropological trickster
Response to Hau Book Symposium on Coleman, Gabriella. 2014. Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous. London and New York: Verso
The Quintessential Role of Olmec in the Central Highlands of Mexico: A Refutation
The ceramic assemblage which characterizes the enigmatic Tlatilco burials is duplicated in the stratigraphy of the El Terror phase at Iglesia Vieja, Morelos, where two components have been isolated and defined. The earlier of the two is found to be regional, pre-eminent, and pre-Olmec, rather than Olmec-inspired as previously thought. Radiocarbon dates from charcoal associated with Olmec figurines and vessels are as early as those from the Olmec …
How has the fight for anonymity and privacy advanced since Snowden’s whistle-blowing
This article examines the legal, social, and political forces in a post-Snowden era that clarified the stakes around privacy and anonymity all while pulling more people into the orbit of a contemporary privacy and anonymity movement. It compares and contrasts the 100-year period in which US courts fleshed out free speech ideals and recent grass-roots privacy and anonymity initiatives that have come to reach a critical mass, highlighting the impor…
The Quintessential Role of Olmec in the Central Highlands of Mexico: A Refutation
The ceramic assemblage which characterizes the enigmatic Tlatilco burials is duplicated in the stratigraphy of the El Terror phase at Iglesia Vieja, Morelos, where two components have been isolated and defined. The earlier of the two is found to be regional, pre-eminent, and pre-Olmec, rather than Olmec-inspired as previously thought. Radiocarbon dates from charcoal associated with Olmec figurines and vessels are as early as those from the Olmec …
Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (review)
Silicon Valley—known as a site that produces all things and ideas technological—has increasingly come under academic scrutiny as a region with its own unique cultural currents. Adding to this cultural history, Christine Finn's Artifacts presents an engaging "series of snapshots" with special attention to diverse material objects—billboards, orchards, computers, newspaper ads—as a means of reflecting on the people and places of Silicon Valley. Thr…
The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast
Refereed
Hacking - by Tim Jordan
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Hacking Tim Jordan Polity Press, New York, 2008$59.95 (hard), $19.95 (soft), pp. 200 Gabriella Coleman Gabriella Coleman 1New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 59, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages E19–E22, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01464.x Published: 10 December 2009
Code Is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers
In this essay, I examine the channels through which Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) developers reconfigure central tenets of the liberal tradition-and the meanings of both freedom and speech-to defend against efforts to constrain their productive autonomy. I demonstrate how F/OSS developers contest and specify the meaning of liberal freedom-especially free speech-through the development of legal tools and discourses within the context of th…
The Hacker Conference: A Ritual Condensation and Celebration of a Lifeworld
This piece draws on ethnographic experience at various hacker conferences to rethink how face-to-face interactions work in concert with digital interactivity to constitute social worlds. Through a process of ritual condensation and emotional celebration, the conference works to perform and thus confirm what are otherwise more frequent, though more prosaic forms of virtual sociality. This focus allows me to decenter the historical priority placed …
Hacker Politics and Publics
This article examines some of the attributes that mark geek and hacker politics as distinct from other domains of digitally based activism and offers an introductory framework to assess their political significance
Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking
Once used exclusively to refer to people who staged fearsome Internet pranks, today the name “Anonymous” belongs to many individuals and groups engaging in diverse genres of collective action, ranging from online stunts and political campaigns to expediting in-person protests. Their interventions have included protesting the Church of Scientology, hacking into servers to scour for politically worthwhile information to leak, and providing technolo…
Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking
Piracy and Social Change: Roundtable Discussion
This roundtable discussion draws together researchers with an interest of overcoming purely juridical treatment of piracy in their work. Christopher Kelty and Gabriella Coleman consider the aspects of cyberculture, which conflictually engage with intellectual property rights, through various communities of technology practice, including hackers. Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi’s work on fair use addresses the growing opportunities for creato…
The anthropological trickster
Response to Hau Book Symposium on Coleman, Gabriella. 2014. Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous. London and New York: Verso
Hacktivisme: Les Geeks Montent Au Front
From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek
Hackers and their projects have become routine, authoritative, and public participants in our daily geopolitical goings-on. There are no obvious, much less given, explanations as to why a socially and economically privileged group of actors, once primarily defined by obscure tinkering and technical exploration, is now so willing to engage in popular media advocacy, traditional policy- and law-making, political tool building, and especially forms …
How has the fight for anonymity and privacy advanced since Snowden’s whistle-blowing
This article examines the legal, social, and political forces in a post-Snowden era that clarified the stakes around privacy and anonymity all while pulling more people into the orbit of a contemporary privacy and anonymity movement. It compares and contrasts the 100-year period in which US courts fleshed out free speech ideals and recent grass-roots privacy and anonymity initiatives that have come to reach a critical mass, highlighting the impor…
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