Rasa Smite: Creative Networks: In the Rearview Mirror of Eastern European History (2011/2012)

“Creative Networks explores the dawn of the Internet culture in the age of network society from the perspective of Eastern Europe. From a theoretical angle the networks are introduced and interpreted as complex socio-technical systems. The author analyzes the development of these networked self-organized formations starting off with ‘virtual communities’ of ‘creative networks’, which emerged during the early phase of the Internet, up to the phenomena of today’s online ‘social networks’. Along with the translocal case studies of Nettime, Syndicate, Faces and Xchange networks (as well as with the other important facets of the 1990s network culture in Europe), the author studies also local community networking case of alternative and digital culture that evolved around E-Lab in the 1990s in Latvia. By focusing primarily on the network culture of 1990s, this study reflects those changes in the social structure of today’s society that are occurring under the process of socio-technical transformation.

The book is based on a dissertation by Rasa Smite, with the title Creative Network Communities and was defended in Riga Stradins University, February 2011.”

First published in Latvian in Riga: RIXC and Liepaja: LiepU MPLab, 2011.

Translated by Linda Vebere
Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2012
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 Netherlands License
ISBN 9789081857505
160 pages

Review: Piibe Piirma (Baltic Screen Media Review, 2014).

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Parmy Olson: We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency (2012)

“A thrilling, exclusive expose of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.

WE ARE ANONYMOUS is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds-and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring them down. Parmy Olson goes behind the headlines and into the world of Anonymous and LulzSec with unprecedented access, drawing upon hundreds of conversations with the hackers themselves, including exclusive interviews with all six core members of LulzSec.

In late 2010, thousands of hacktivists joined a mass digital assault on the websites of VISA, MasterCard, and PayPal to protest their treatment of WikiLeaks. Other targets were wide ranging-the websites of corporations from Sony Entertainment and Fox to the Vatican and the Church of Scientology were hacked, defaced, and embarrassed-and the message was that no one was safe. Thousands of user accounts from pornography websites were released, exposing government employees and military personnel.

Although some attacks were perpetrated by masses of users who were rallied on the message boards of 4Chan, many others were masterminded by a small, tight-knit group of hackers who formed a splinter group of Anonymous called LulzSec. The legend of Anonymous and LulzSec grew in the wake of each ambitious hack. But how were they penetrating intricate corporate security systems? Were they anarchists or activists? Teams or lone wolves? A cabal of skilled hackers or a disorganized bunch of kids?

WE ARE ANONYMOUS delves deep into the internet’s underbelly to tell the incredible full story of the global cyber insurgency movement, and its implications for the future of computer security.”

Publisher Little, Brown and Company, June 2012
ISBN 0316213535, 9780316213530
432 pages
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interview with the author (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
interview with the author (Jesse Hicks, The Verge)
review (Quinn Norton, Wired)
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Richard ‘Korrupt’ Joos, Randolf ‘gulli’ Jorberg, Axel ‘LexaT’ Gönnemann: gulli wars™ (2008) [German]

Ort: das Internet. Zeit: 1998-2008. ber zehn Jahre hinweg schrieb gulli.com die Internet-, Netzkultur- und Rechtsgeschichte mit. Neben dem Wandel des Internet zum Massenmedium, Dotcomboom und Abmahnwahn, dem Aufkommen der Blogs, dem Niedergang der Musikindustrie und vieler anderer vermeintlicher und realer Internetrevolutionen wurde eine kleine Seite zu einer der Top50-Sites im deutschsprachigen Netz. Die Geschichte von gulli.com und einigen Leuten dahinter.

Self-published
ISBN 3837042944, 9783837042948
Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 License
258 pages

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