"Who is Anonymous" asks Don't Poke the Bear: Scrimmaging with Anonymous by text2cloud. The piece concludes with this statement: "Who is Anonymous? They are our students."
Well, with a couple of teenager outings documented, it seems likely that this assemblage is made up of at least some young people. But what do we take from thinking that they are "our students"? Also, I wonder how well the group can be understood by knowing a few of the unveiled involved individuals. With their 4chan affiliation, non-hierarchical "divided by zero" structuring, political and jackass-styled frivolous efforts, and "doing it for the lulz" history, a question I am much more interested in would follow up on last spring's InfoStructure talk by Julian Dibble to ask not "who" but "why" are young people Anonymous?
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