11 / November 24

Lulzsec to Nulzsec

“(Heterarchy is) an emergent organizational form with distinctive network properties… and multiple organizing principles.”
— Stark

Topics

Digital activism, left and right; CCC, Legion of Doom, Anonymous, Lulzsec; Internet Research Agency; chans and occult memetics, Pepe, Kek, /pol to QAnon; narrative laundering; Mark Lombardi, Interlocks, cognitive hierarchies, heterarchy, rhizomatics; Chaff v. Fog Reveal, Pegasus v. Predator; obfuscation, Bayesian flooding; mercenary spyware

Readings

Hugh Davies

The Gamification of Conspiracy: QAnon as ARG

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Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

from Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest

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Additional Reading

Carole L. Crumley, HeterarchyColin F. Camerer, Teck-Hua Ho, et al., A Cognitive Hierarchy Theory of GamesGNET Report, Fogging and Flooding: Countering Extremist Mis/Disinformation After Terror Attacks

Lab

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