Thanks Udhay and let me actually thank Chris Kelty for being the BEST mentor I could ever have. The book will be available for download for free (as in speech, sort of and beer) on my website. I will announce it when it is the case.
Warm regards, Biella On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13-Jan-11 10:03 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> One silklister, writing about another. >> >> I'm posting this a) posting this in the hope of getting Biella to come >> out of lurkspace; and b) just for the coolness inherent in the phrase >> 'hacker anthropologist'. :) >> >> Udhay >> >> http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/13/interview-with-hacke.html > > Another piece by Cory, on Biella's new book. I think that a couple more > silklisters (Chris Kelty and Casey O' Donnell) were involved in the > dissertation process in some way, as well. Congrats on the book! > > Udhay > > http://boingboing.net/2012/11/25/coding-freedom-an-an.html > > Coding Freedom: an anthropologist understands hacker culture > > Biella Coleman is a geek anthropologist, in both senses of the epithet: > an anthropologist who studies geeks, and a geek who is an > anthropologist. Though she's best known today for her excellent and > insightful work on the mechanism and structure underpinning Anonymous > and /b/, Coleman is also an expert on the organization, structure, > philosophy and struggles of the free software/open source movements. I > met Biella while she was doing fieldwork as an intern at the Electronic > Frontier Foundation. She's also had deep experience with the Debian > project and many other hacker/FLOSS subcultures. > > Coleman's has published her dissertation, edited and streamlined, under > the title of Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, which > comes out today from Princeton University Press (Quinn Norton, also well > known for her Wired reporting on Anonymous and Occupy, had a hand in the > editing). Coding Freedom walks the fine line between popular > accessibility and scholarly rigor, and does a very good job of > expressing complex ideas without (too much) academic jargon. > > Coding Freedom is insightful and fascinating, a superbly observed > picture of the motives, divisions and history of the free software and > software freedom world. As someone embedded in both those worlds, I > found myself surprised by connections I'd never made on my own, but > which seemed perfectly right and obvious in hindsight. Coleman's work > pulls together a million IRC conversations and mailing list threads and > wikiwars and gets to their foundations, the deep discussion evolving > through the world of free/open source software. > > > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
