Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy in the Art History and Communication Studies Department at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, she researches, writes, and teaches on hackers and digital activism. Her first book on Free Software, “Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking” has been published with Princeton University Press.
She is currently working on a new book on Anonymous and digital media under contract with Verso.
Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Hacking
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the fraught contemporary politics of intellectual law? In this talk I discuss the arguments and writing of Coding Freedom, an ethnographic account of free software development, which examines how these hackers are at the forefront of fomenting a vibrant political culture of civil liberties online.
Agenda for this event:
5:30 - 6:00 pm Registration, networking
6:00 - 6:05 pm Welcome and intro
6:05 - 6:45 pm Coding Freedom by Gabriella Coleman
6:45 - 7:00 pm Q&A
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