Exploring digital spheres with Gabriella Coleman.

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Gabriella Coleman is on of the most (if not the most) prominent anthropologist in the field of hacking culture and digital activism. During the last years, she became known as «the world’s foremost scholar on Anonymous». Her research intensively accompanied Anonymous through the developments of the last years, gaining deep insights on «what began as a network of trolls [and] has become a wellspring of online insurgency», as her new book Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous states. It recently has been named to Kirkus Reviews’Best Books of 2014.