Gabriella Coleman

El libro definitivo sobre el movimiento de hackers, activistas, espías y bromistas que opera bajo el (no-) nombre de Anonymous, escrito por la autora que según el Huffington Post mejor conoce sus "más oscuros y profundos secretos". En 2010, la antropóloga Gabriella Coleman inició un profundo trabajo de campo sobre el auge de este fenómeno global, al tiempo que algunos de sus miembros se adentraban en el mundo de la protesta política y el activismo...

Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption. She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside-outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book. The narrative brims with...

In less than one generation, the internet has become a mass surveillance machine based on one simple rule: if it's free, you're the product. Social platforms have become masters at monetising our personal data, whilst the traces we leave of ourselves online are also captured and made accessible to governments across the world. To the hacker community, Big Brother is real and only a major technological battle will be able to defeat him.