TA34 Digital Anthropology

Published: Sept. 4, 2011, 6:03 p.m.

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