TA34 – Digital Anthropology

The combination of a year reading into a subject and the element of total surprise made for a great interview. Gabriella Coleman and I finally set down to have a talk at the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 in Germany. I hope you enjoy and comment!

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Topics:

• how Gabriella came to her discipline
• the path to Free and open source culture
• What Anthropology has to offer? advantages and limits
• “going native”
• working with digital material in social science
• problems of anthropology studying the digital in western countries
• necessary media literacy for studying digital communities
• Hackers protesting the church of Scientology
• publication and review process in social sciences
• her research about Anonymous
• Gabriela’s role as scientist/spokesperson/activist
• Forthcoming book: Coding and Freedome, the ethics and pleasures of hacking
• emerging new Hacking entities Anonymous, AntiSec, LulSec, Telecomix

Resources:

• Gabriella Coleman. 2004. 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)
• Gabriella Coleman. 2008. The Politics of Rationality: Psychiatric Survivor’s Challenge to Psychiatry. In Tactical Biopolitics. Kavita Phillip and Beatriz de Costa (editors). Cambridge: MIT Press
• Christopher M. Kelty. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software and the Internet. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Christopher M. Kelty. 2005. ”Geeks, Recursive Publics, and Social Imaginaries” in Cultural Anthropology 20.2 Summer. (link paywall!)
• Gabriella Coleman. ”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
• Gabriella Coleman. 2010. Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media. Annual Review of Anthropology. 39: 1-16, (2010)
• Gabriella Coleman. 2010. Hacking In-Person: The Ritual Character of Conferences and the Distillation of a Life-World. Anthropological Quarterly, Winter (2010)
• Gabriella Coleman. 2009. Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers. Cultural Anthropology. 24(3): 420-454 (2009)
• Gabriella Coleman. 2008 Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism. Anthropological Theory, Vol. 8, No. 3, 255-277 (with Alex Golub)
• Academic Bio of Gabriella Coleman
• Christopher M. Kelty - his tumbleblog and his posts on savageminds
• The Talk of Telecomix at the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 were they dissolved themselfes
• Bluehackers.org – community to raise awareness about the problem of depression in the hacker community
• @biellacoleman – Gabriella Coleman on Twitter
• freenode.net irc network (http, irc)

The combination of a year reading into a subject and the element of total surprise made for a great interview. Gabriella Coleman and I finally set down to have a talk at the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 in Germany. I hope you enjoy and comment! Topics: * how Gabriella came to her discipline * ...