Selected Publications
Books
Articles and Chapters
- The Corpse Sits Up: Recursive Ethnography and the History of the Hack-and-Leak. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Forthcoming.
- From busting cults to breeding cults: Anonymous h/acktivism vs. the (a)nonymous far right and QAnon. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 13(2) 2023: 248–263.
- Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker (with Matt Goerzen). Data and Society Special Report, January 2022.
- How Has the Fight for Anonymity and Privacy Changed? Media, Culture & Society 41(4) 2019: 565–571.
- Postdigital Anthropology: Hacks, Hackers, and the Human Condition. Postdigital Science and Education 1(2) 2019: 525–550.
- Hacktivisme: Les Geeks Montent au Front. Sociologie et Sociétés 49(2) 2018: 225–250.
- The Public Interest Hack. Gabriella Coleman and Chris Kelty, eds. Limn: Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches, Issue 8, 2017.
- From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek. Current Anthropology 58(S15) 2017: 91–102.
- The Anthropological Trickster. Hau: A Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(2) 2015: 399–407.
- Piracy and Social Change: Roundtable Discussion. Popular Communication 13 (2015): 87–99.
- Anonymous in Context. Centre for International Governance Innovation, Paper Series on Internet Governance, September 2013: 1–22.
- Our Weirdness is Free: The logic of Anonymous — online army, agent of chaos and seeker of justice. Triple Canopy 15 (2012).
- Am I Anonymous? Limn: Crowds and Clouds, Issue 2, March 2012.
- Hacker Politics and Publics. Public Culture 23(3) 2011: 511–516.
- Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media. Annual Review of Anthropology 39 (2010): 487–505.
- Hacking In-Person: The Ritual Character of Conferences and the Distillation of a Life-World. Anthropological Quarterly 83(1) 2010: 99–124.
- Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers. Cultural Anthropology 24(3) 2009: 420–454.
- Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism (with Alex Golub). Anthropological Theory 8(3) 2008: 255–277.