Category: Hacktivism

Postdoctoral Fellow: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Events, Eyewitness Reports, Film, Hacktivism, Human Rights, Interviews, Interviews, Job Announcements, London Conference 2004 (SOAS), Translation

Postdoctoral Fellow – (2400034K) Description  The Department of Translation is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a long history of excellence in a variety of fields, including but not limited to translation history, translation and technology, digital humanities, translation theory, and practical translation (especially literary). The Department is also home to the

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Translational Perspectives on Corpus-based Conceptual Analysis

Events, Events, Eyewitness Reports, Film, Hacktivism, Human Rights, Interviews, Interviews, London Conference 2004 (SOAS), Translation

A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network in collaboration with the University of Oslo’s SHE Corpus team Date: 26 March 20 Time: 12:00-15:40 (UTC) Venue: Online Speakers: Dr Michael Livesey (Sheffield), Dr Kyunghye Kim (Dongguk), Dr Gabriela Saldanha (Oslo), Prof. Qing Cao (Durham) Event website: https://genealogiesofknowledge.net/research-network-events/translational-perspectives/ Registration link: https://nettskjema.no/a/477242 [nettskjema.no] About the event There is now a vast

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Important Announcement about the SISU Baker Centre

Events, Eyewitness Reports, Film, Hacktivism, Human Rights, Interviews, Interviews, London Conference 2004 (SOAS), Other News, Translation

Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to let you know that I am stepping down as Director of the SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, with effect from 1 January 2025. The Centre will then cease to exist, at my request, but the individual activities undertaken under its auspices will continue to run separately

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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous

Citizen Media, Hacktivism, Publications

by Gabriella Coleman “Easily the best book on Anonymous.” —Julian Assange Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets.” Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of

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Here’s How Anonymous Is Trying to Take Down the Israeli Government

Citizen Media, Hacktivism

    By launching a cyberwar. Anonymous — the faceless hacker collective best known for harrasing several American credit card companies, the Westboro Baptist Church and the Church of Scientology — has launched an aggressive assault on the Israeli government for their ongoing ground campaign in the Gaza Strip. And in true Anonymous fashion, they aren’t hiding it — they’re flaunting

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