Gabriella Coleman

Academic Publications

  • Hackers. The Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Digital Textuality. Forthcoming, 2014 (link)
  • Anonymous in Context: The Politics and Power Behind the Mask. Report for Center for International Governance Innovation. (link)
  • Close to the Metal. (with Finn Brunton) In Mediation, Materiality, Maintenance: Paths Forward in the Study of Media Technologies, Gillespie, T., Boczkowski, P., & Foot, K., eds. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Forthcoming.
  • Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Princeton University Press, November 2012 (link)
  • . You can download a CC PDF copy here.

  • Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking. In Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism & Society, Brevini, B., Hintz, A., and McCurdy, P., eds. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. (link)
  • Am I Anonymous? Limn, 2012 (link)
  • Our Weirdness Is Free, The logic of Anonymous—online army, agent of chaos, and seeker of justice. Triple Canopy, January 2012 (link)
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  • Hacker Politics and Publics. Public Culture. Vol 23, No. 3, 511-516 (2011) (view)
  • Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls and the Politics of Transgression and Spectacle. In The Social Media Reader, ed. Michael Mandiberg. New York: NYU Press (2012) (view)
  • Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media. Annual Review of Anthropology. 39: 1-16, (2010) (link)
  • Hacking In-Person: The Ritual Character of Conferences and the Distillation of a Life-World. Anthropological Quarterly, Winter (2010) (view)
  • Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers. Cultural Anthropology. 24(3): 420-454 (2009) (view)
  • Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism. Anthropological Theory, Vol. 8, No. 3, 255-277 (2008) (with Alex Golub) (view)
  • The Politics of Rationality: Psychiatric Survivor’s Challenge to Psychiatry. In Tactical Biopolitics. Kavita Phillip and Beatriz de Costa (editors). Cambridge: MIT Press (2008) (link)
  • Los Temps d’Indymedia. Multitudes. (21): 41-N48, May (2005) (link)
  • The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast. Anthropology Quarterly. 77(03): 507-519, Summer (2004) (link)
  • How Free Became Open and Everything Else Under the Sun. M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, July (2004) (with Mako Hill) (link)