24th to 27th October 2018, Hamburg, The conference of the Reconfiguring Anonymity project. Details, call for participation, and further information on the preliminary programme see here:
Transparency and Society – Between Promise and Peril
June 12-14, 2018, this Herrenhausen Conference will take place in Berlin, Germany. The Anon research group is taking part.
„Politics of Anonymity“ – Artistic Research Event
Under the title „Politics of Anonymity“ and with the collaboration of our curators and researchers Andreas Broeckmann and Daniela Silvestrin an artistic research event will take place on March 2nd, 2018 in Paris.
Rezension: „Kritische Kollektivität im Netz.
Carolin Zieringer aus dem Anon-Team rezensiert für surveillance-studies.org das Buch „Kritische Kollektivität im Netz. Anonymous, Facebook und die Kraft der Affizierung in der Kontrollgesellschaft“ von Carolin Wiedemann. Insgesamt bietet “Kritische Kollektivität im Netz” einen guten, historisch eingebetteten und reflektierten Überblick über aktuelle Theoriedebatten, der auch einen Beitrag zur politischen Praxis leisten kann.
Auch im Darknet nicht unerkannt
Ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit: Im Darknet seine Anonymität wahren. Ein Bericht bei Heise Online.
ANON-Member Randi Heinrichs on „Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy. The Many Faces of Anonymous“ by G.Coleman
PhD-Candidate Randi Heinrichs, who is completing her dissertation as a research group member of the Anon-Project, published a review on Gabriella Coleman’s „Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower“. The book has stirred up quite some discussions on the nature of Anonymity, hacktivism and how to do reasearch on those topics. Randi concludes: By de-anonymizing the many faces of […]
What does it mean to be a hacker these days? Anon Resarchers contribute to LIMN Issue #8
This is one of the questions alongside which the current issue #8 of LIMN explores issues around online-„security“, cyber hacks and digital-leaks especially regarding their transformative potential. The self-described „scholarly magazine devoted to outlining contemporary problems“ features contributions also by members of the „Reconfiguring-Anonymity-Group“, namely Götz Bachmann and Paula Bialski. For readers interested in not-only-academic […]
Colloquium Hamburg „Anonymous and confidential?! Practices dealing with identity and identifiability in data infrastructure.“
Colloquium of the Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology/ University Hamburg „Anonymous and confidential?! Practices dealing with identity and identifiability in data infrastructure.“ // „Anonym und streng vertraulich?! Praxisformen im Umgang mit Identität und Identifizierbarkeit in Dateninfrastrukturen“ Summer Term 2017 | Wednesdays 6-8 PM, Room 220 (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 11, ESA West) Chair: Anna Henke Everyone knows […]
danah boyd on 4chan and anonymity
“for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy
Panel on Missing persons and unidentified bodies
This panel at the EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) annual conference in July 2016 addressed the issue of missing persons and unidentified bodies in various empirical contexts. Claiming that death is rather a process than a moment, papers addressed the question how such confrontations with ‚unusual‘ deaths are symbolically, socially, and politically negotiated.