The combination of a year reading into a subject and the element of total surprise made for a great interview. Gabriella Coleman and I finally set down to have a talk at the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 in Germany. I hope you enjoy and comment!

Topics:

• how Gabriella came to her discipline
• the path to Free and open source culture
• What Anthropology has to offer? advantages and limits
• "going native"
• working with digital material in social science
• problems of anthropology studying the digital in western countries
• necessary media literacy for studying digital communities
• Hackers protesting the church of Scientology
• publication and review process in social sciences
• her research about Anonymous
• Gabriela's role as scientist/spokesperson/activist
• Forthcoming book: Coding and Freedome, the ethics and pleasures of hacking
• emerging new Hacking entities Anonymous, AntiSec, LulSec, Telecomix