Hacker and Drone Training as Ethnographic Fieldwork
Recently, I enrolled in two multi-day training workshops in the United Kingdom with the pretense of gathering ethnographic data about emergent cultures …
Web Roundup: A Hack By Any Other Name by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
Hacking has been on our minds for months now, namely due to the American (and now French) presidential election. But hacking has been of interest …
David Bozzini: Gabriella Coleman on the ethnography of digital politics – part 2
David Bozzini is a research fellow at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where he is researching on Eritrean deserters movements and on the …
David Bozzini: Gabriella Coleman on the ethnography of digital politics – Part 1
David Bozzini is a research fellow at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where he is researching on Eritrean deserters movements and on the …
Hactivists aren’t terrorists – but US prosecutors make little distinction
[written with Luca Follis, Lancaster University] Activists who use technology to conduct political dissent – hacktivists – are increasingly threatened with investigation, …