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Leonie Maria Tanczer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Book review: living with hacktivism - from conflict to symbiosis by Vasileios Karagiannopoulos
2018Co-Authors: Leonie Maria TanczerAbstract:Convictions of politically-motivated hackers - so-called 'Hacktivists' - have hit the headlines in recent years. Living with Hacktivism: From Conflict to Symbiosis offers one of the first legal and regulatory analyses of this evolving phenomena. Author Vasileios Karagiannopoulos attentively guides the reader through the shortcomings of the contemporary legislative cybercrime and cyberterrorism landscape, focusing specifically on the USA and UK. Although Leonie Maria Tanczer would have hoped to see a stronger engagement with the work of ‘hackademics’, the publication is an important contribution to the evolving body of cybercrime literature.
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The Terrorist – Hacker/Hacktivist Distinction: An Investigation of Self-Identified Hackers and Hacktivists
2017Co-Authors: Leonie Maria TanczerAbstract:The academic literature on terrorism is filled with references to online activities, and the equation of hacking and hacktivism (i.e., politically motivated hacking) with cyberterrorism. This perspective ignores differences in capacities, scope, and motives. Besides, scholarly research is lacking examinations of those perceived as alleged ‘security threats’. This chapter therefore uses interviews with self-identified hackers and Hacktivists (N = 35) to address this gap. It examines the distinction between hacking, hacktivism, and cyberterrorism, and studies the discourses and practices of hackers and Hacktivists. Building upon the theoretical concept of (in)securitisation and the method of thematic analysis, the findings provide insights into (a) perceptions of hackers and Hacktivists by external actors and their (b) self-assessment that stands in contrast to the viewpoints expressed earlier. The results highlight interviewees' objections to the translation of hacking and hacktivism into violent acts of any nature, with participants articulating that the connection of these concepts poses threats to civil liberties and political rights online. The chapter therefore has implications both for academic as well as professional discourse. It seeks to foster a more reflected engagement with these concepts and points to the need for concrete terminological delineations.
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the terrorist hacker hacktivist distinction an investigation of self identified hackers and Hacktivists
2017Co-Authors: Leonie Maria TanczerAbstract:The academic literature on terrorism is filled with references to online activities, and the equation of hacking and hacktivism (i.e., politically motivated hacking) with cyberterrorism. This perspective ignores differences in capacities, scope, and motives. Besides, scholarly research is lacking examinations of those perceived as alleged ‘security threats’. This chapter therefore uses interviews with self-identified hackers and Hacktivists (N = 35) to address this gap. It examines the distinction between hacking, hacktivism, and cyberterrorism, and studies the discourses and practices of hackers and Hacktivists. Building upon the theoretical concept of (in)securitisation and the method of thematic analysis, the findings provide insights into (a) perceptions of hackers and Hacktivists by external actors and their (b) self-assessment that stands in contrast to the viewpoints expressed earlier. The results highlight interviewees' objections to the translation of hacking and hacktivism into violent acts of any nature, with participants articulating that the connection of these concepts poses threats to civil liberties and political rights online. The chapter therefore has implications both for academic as well as professional discourse. It seeks to foster a more reflected engagement with these concepts and points to the need for concrete terminological delineations.
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Hacktivism and the male-only stereotype
New Media & Society, 2015Co-Authors: Leonie Maria TanczerAbstract:This research explores hacktivism as a new form of online political activism. It uses qualitative interviews with a gender-equal sample of 10 self-defined Hacktivists to address issues of gender and the discursive strategies used by males and females to handle the hacktivist community’s male-only stereotype. The semi-structured interviews are analysed using Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA). The analysis indicates that male Hacktivists relate to this dominant male-only representation through discursive techniques such as the suppression of gender (Male Oblivious Discourse) or mechanisms of vindication (Male Justification Discourse). Female Hacktivists use the accentuation of gender and sexism to counteract male-dominant discourses and establish Female Discourses of Resistance (Emphasis Discourse; Negation Discourse). These gender-related argumentative positions and rhetorical mechanisms demonstrate how the male-only stereotype is created and maintained and how it affects not only Hacktivists’ talk and sense-making but also their identity and the hacktivist actions they perform.
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Hacktivism and the Male-Only Stereotype
2015Co-Authors: Leonie Maria TanczerAbstract:This research explores hacktivism as a new form of online political activism. It uses qualitative interviews with a gender-equal sample of ten self-defined Hacktivists to address issues of gender and the discursive strategies used by males and females to handle the hacktivist community’s male-only stereotype. The semi-structured interviews are analysed using Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA). The analysis indicates that male Hacktivists relate to this dominant male-only representation through discursive techniques such as the suppression of gender (Male Oblivious Discourse) or mechanisms of vindication (Male Justification Discourse). Female Hacktivists use the accentuation of gender and sexism to counteract male-dominant discourses and establish Female Discourses of Resistance (Emphasis Discourse; Negation Discourse). These gender-related argumentative positions and rhetorical mechanisms demonstrate how the male-only stereotype is created and maintained, and how it affects not only Hacktivists’ talk and sense-making, but also their identity and the hacktivist actions they perform.
Paul Mobbs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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'Infowar: The Hacktivists, 2001', Videos, Work Archive, Paul Mobbs and Mobbs' Environmental Investigations & Research (MEI)
2016Co-Authors: Paul Mobbs, MeiAbstract:This is the 'Infowar: The Hacktivists, 2001' video page of the Paul Mobbs and Mobbs' Environmental Investigations (MEI) 'Video Works Archive'
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infowar the Hacktivists 2001 videos work archive paul mobbs and mobbs environmental investigations research mei
2016Co-Authors: Paul MobbsAbstract:This is the 'Infowar: The Hacktivists, 2001' video page of the Paul Mobbs and Mobbs' Environmental Investigations (MEI) 'Video Works Archive'
Paul A. Taylor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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From hackers to Hacktivists: speed bumps on the global superhighway?:
New Media & Society, 2005Co-Authors: Paul A. TaylorAbstract:This article traces the emergence of the new social movement of hacktivism from hacking and questions its potential as a source of technologically-mediated radical political action. It assesses hacktivism in the light of critical theories of technology that question the feasibility of re-engineering technical systems to more humane ends. The predecessor of hacktivism, hacking, is shown to contain certain parasitical elements that provide a barrier to more politically-orientated goals. Examples are provided of how such goals are much more in evidence within hacktivism. Its alternative conceptualization of the human-technology relationship is examined in terms of a purported development from conceptualizations of networks to webs that incorporate new ways of producing online solidarity and oppositional practices to global capital.
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TrickE-business: malcontents in the matrix
The Economic and Social Impacts of E-Commerce, 2003Co-Authors: Paul A. TaylorAbstract:This chapter explores the phenomenon of hacktivism in the context of globalization debates and the evolving nature of new social movements. It explores the historical trend by which capitalism has become increasingly more immaterial in its appearance but powerful in its effects. Using examples of specific hacktivist groups, hacktivism is shown to be an inventive response to this trend and represents an imaginative re-appropriation of the Web for spider-like anti-capitalist protest. The paper concludes with a summary of the hacktivist philosophy that seeks to reassert the origins of the marketplace as an agora for the people rather than just big business. Hacktivism is shown to represent a rationale diametrically opposed to e-commerce.
Mei - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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'Infowar: The Hacktivists, 2001', Videos, Work Archive, Paul Mobbs and Mobbs' Environmental Investigations & Research (MEI)
2016Co-Authors: Paul Mobbs, MeiAbstract:This is the 'Infowar: The Hacktivists, 2001' video page of the Paul Mobbs and Mobbs' Environmental Investigations (MEI) 'Video Works Archive'
Luca Follis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gagged and Doxed: Hacktivisms Self-Incrimination Complex
2019Co-Authors: Adam Fish, Luca FollisAbstract:The investigation, arrest, and conviction of a number of high-profile hacker-activists, or Hacktivists, reveal the ways subjectivity is mobilized through processes of revelation and evasion. We use the term subjectivation to describe the performative practices engaged in by Hacktivists and contrast them with governmental and disciplinary practices of subjection. We elaborate upon two categories of subjectivation (coming out and versioning) and two categories of subjection (doxing and gagging). These categories form the vectors of hacktivist and state coproduction that emerge in selfie-incrimination. We use the term selfie to describe both intentional and inadvertent practices of online self-disclosure. Selfie-incrimination that is public and voluntary we discuss in terms of coming out. Versioning describes the public voluntary manipulation of personal identity. Being doxed entails the online disclosure of a hacktivist’s identity. Gagging refers to this ultimate silencing of illicit political digital activity, wherein the state designates the parameters of speech as well as physical movement. We conclude by examining the entangled and asymmetrical relationship between hacktivist subjectivity and the cybersecurity of the state.
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Gagged and Doxed: Hacktivism’s Self-Incrimination Complex
International Journal of Communication, 2016Co-Authors: Adam Fish, Luca FollisAbstract:The investigation, arrest, and conviction of a number of high-profile hacker-activists, or Hacktivists, reveal the ways subjectivity is mobilized through processes of revelation and evasion. We use the term subjectivation to describe the performative practices engaged in by Hacktivists and contrast them with governmental and disciplinary practices of subjection . We elaborate upon two categories of subjectivation ( coming out and versioning ) and two categories of subjection ( doxing and gagging ). These categories form the vectors of hacktivist and state coproduction that emerge in selfie-incrimination. We use the term selfie to describe both intentional and inadvertent practices of online self-disclosure. Selfie-incrimination that is public and voluntary we discuss in terms of coming out . Versioning describes the public voluntary manipulation of personal identity. Being doxed entails the online disclosure of a hacktivist’s identity. Gagging refers to this ultimate silencing of illicit political digital activity, wherein the state designates the parameters of speech as well as physical movement. We conclude by examining the entangled and asymmetrical relationship between hacktivist subjectivity and the cybersecurity of the state.
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Edgework, state power, and Hacktivists
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2015Co-Authors: Adam Fish, Luca FollisAbstract:Comment on Coleman, Gabriella. 2014. Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous . London and New York: Verso.
