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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...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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How 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...
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Is 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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