Burt Herman:||“We should apply technology lessons to journalism”
Hacks/Hackers’ founder speaks to OWNI about his brainchild, a group that tries to connect journalists and technologists. He talks about the genesis of the initiative during a Knight journalism...
View ArticleThe Aesthetic Face(s) of Anonymous
As an anthropologist of the digital I tend not to treat digital media as exceptional, except when it comes to the few exceptions that seem to rub up against our traditional categories and...
View ArticleThe Underground Geek: A Fabulous Experience of ‘Augmented Sexuality’
When analyzing and rationalizing the ‘web digitalis homo sapiens’ the sexual mannerisms of the geek are a vast source of entertaining information for editors: the geek, this alien-like creature, seems...
View ArticleHow a handful of geeks defied the USSR
USSR, August 19 1991: While Mikhaïl Gorbatchev was on holiday in his datcha located in Crimea, Eight apparatchiks attempted to seize power over the state. Hostile to reforms, the “Gang of Eight” tried...
View ArticleIs Anonymous Anarchy?
For many, the political movement known as Anonymous conjures one thing and one thing alone: anarchy. I have now seen this association made so many times, I thought it might be a good idea to lay out in...
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