BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250731T192301EDT-7087SnZwaA@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250731T232301Z DESCRIPTION:Virtual/ Online Event with Professional Live Captions in Englis h\n\nPlease register on Eventbrite.\n\nFirst emerging from the anonymous i mageboard 4chan\, Anonymous found its activist sea legs in 2008 during a w orldwide protest campaign against the Church of Scientology. Not long afte r\, Anonymous surged in visibility and popularity as hackers used the name to lay claim to high-profile hacktivist actions. Other groups and individ uals used it to coordinate dozens of political operations\, often supporti ng social justice movements. A decade later\, after Anonymous activity wan ed\, different movements and currents\, like the anonymous far-right and t he conspiracy theorists QAnon had sprung forth from similar anonymous imag eboards. Like Anonymous\, these movements and currents played integral\, e ven outsized roles in various political arenas.\n In contrast to Anonymous\ , they often worked against the cause of social justice and\, in its stead \, supported reactionary\, racist\, conspiratorial or fascist political pl anks. How are we to understand this radical metamorphosis and the relation ships between these currents and movements? In this talk\, I will examine the role of critical events\, translators\, and larger political forces in accounting for their differences and address issues around anonymity\, th e difficulties in researching anonymous quarters of the internet\, and pop ular journalistic accounts in meshing together aspects of these movements that should be pried apart. In so doing\, I will make a case for careful h istorical analysis in media studies work and to call for the end of a clas s of categories\, like Internet activism\, that fails to capture the dynam ics and importance of online tools for political movements today.\n\nDr. G abriella (Biella) Coleman is a full professor in the Department of Anthrop ology at Harvard University and is a faculty associate at the Berkman Cent er for Internet and Society. Her scholarship covers the politics\, culture s\, and ethics of hacking. She is the author of two books on computer hack ers and the founder and editor of Hack_Curio\, a video portal into the cul tures of hacking (you can learn more about the project here). In 2021\, sh e hosted the BBC4 radio and podcast series\, The Hackers. She formerly hel d the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Unive rsity and was an assistant professor in the Department of Media\, Culture\ , and Communication at New York University.\n She is currently completing a multi-year research project with Matt Goerzen on the security field and h acker professionalization during the 1990s and early 2000s. Wearing Many H ats\, the first of two long reports based on this research has been releas ed by the project’s funder and sponsor\, Data and Society. The second repo rt will be released later in 2022. She is also working on a book of essays about hackers and the state and will deliver material from the book for t he 2022 Henry Morgan Lectures.\n\nHer first book Coding Freedom: The Ethic s and Aesthetics of Hacking was published in 2013 with Princeton Universit y Press. She then published Hacker\, Hoaxer\, Whistleblower\, Spy: The Man y Faces of Anonymous (Verso\, 2014)\, which was named to Kirkus Reviews Be st Books of 2014 and was awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by the American Anthropological Association.\n\nThis event is part of the 4th Season of th e Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speak er and Workshop Series\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.\n\nOur series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC\, the Institute for Gender\, S exuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, Initiati ve for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, Dean of Arts Grant\, ReQEF\, and more ( see our website!)\n\nThere is no fee required to attend this event. We wil l provide professional captions in english. This event will NOT be recorde d and NOT bemade available on our website after the event. However\, you c an watch other past events here.\n DTSTART:20221201T230000Z DTEND:20221202T003000Z SUMMARY:Dr. Biella Coleman: From Busting Cults to Breeding Cults: Anonymous Hacktivism vs. QAnon URL:/igsf/channels/event/dr-biella-coleman-busting-cul ts-breeding-cults-anonymous-hacktivism-vs-qanon-341090 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR