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DESCRIPTION:(Virtual/ Online Event with Professional Live Captions in Engli
 sh)\n\nPlease sign up on Eventbrite to get the zoom link.\n\nFrom Busting 
 Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon\n\nFirst emerging 
 from the anonymous imageboard 4chan\, Anonymous found its activist sea leg
 s in 2008 during a worldwide protest campaign against the Church of Scient
 ology. Not long after\, Anonymous surged in visibility and popularity as h
 ackers used the name to lay claim to high-profile hacktivist actions. Othe
 r groups and individuals used it to coordinate dozens of political operati
 ons\, often supporting social justice movements. A decade later\, after An
 onymous activity waned\, different movements and currents\, like the anony
 mous far-right and the conspiracy theorists QAnon had sprung forth from si
 milar anonymous imageboards. Like Anonymous\, these movements and currents
  played integral\, even outsized roles in various political arenas.\n	In co
 ntrast to Anonymous\, they often worked against the cause of social justic
 e and\, in its stead\, supported reactionary\, racist\, conspiratorial or 
 fascist political planks. How are we to understand this radical metamorpho
 sis and the relationships between these currents and movements? In this ta
 lk\, I will examine the role of critical events\, translators\, and larger
  political forces in accounting for their differences and address issues a
 round anonymity\, the difficulties in researching anonymous quarters of th
 e internet\, and popular journalistic accounts in meshing together aspects
  of these movements that should be pried apart. In so doing\, I will make 
 a case for careful historical analysis in media studies work and to call f
 or the end of a class of categories\, like Internet activism\, that fails 
 to capture the dynamics and importance of online tools for political movem
 ents today.\n\nGabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scienti
 fic and Technological Literacy at 黑料不打烊 University. Trained as a cultural
  anthropologist\, she researches\, writes\, and teaches on computer hacker
 s and digital activism. Her first book on Free Software\, Coding Freedom: 
 The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking has been published with Princeton Uni
 versity Press. Her book\, 'Hacker\, Hoaxer\, Whistleblower\, Spy: The Many
  Faces of Anonymous\,' published by Verso\, was named to Kirkus Reviews' B
 est Books of 2014.\n\nThis event is part of the 3rd Season of the Feminist
  and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Wor
 kshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com
 )\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.\n\nSeason 3 of our series was made poss
 ible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC (and the Initiative for Digital Citizen
  Research)\, the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (
 IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\
 , and the 黑料不打烊 Writing Centre.\n\nThere is no fee required to attend thi
 s event. We will provide captions in english.\n
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SUMMARY:Dr. Biella Coleman will present From Busting Cults to Breeding Cult
 s: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon. Talk will be followed by Q&A period (On
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