Articles
“‘LOIC Will Tear Us Apart’: The Impact of Tool Design and Media Portrayals in the Success of Activist DDOS Attacks,” American Behavioral Scientist (published online 15 March 2013) DOI: 10.1177/0002764213479370
“If Hackers Didn’t Exist, Governments Would Have to Invent Them,” The Atlantic (5 July 2012)
“Guy Fawkes Mask-ology,” HiLobrow (30 April 2012)
“The Visual Life of Occupy Wall Street,” In Media Res (7 February 2012)
Jonathan Zittrain and Molly Sauter “Will the U.S. get an Internet ‘kill switch’?” MIT Technology Review (4 March 2011) (expanded version here. )
Jonathan Zittrain and Molly Sauter, “Everything You Need to Know About Wikileaks” MIT Technology Review (9 December 2010) (updated version here.)
Talks
“‘LOIC Will Tear Us Apart,’” Berkman Center, Harvard University (January 2013)
“The Ethics of Activist DDOS Actions,” solo talk, 29c3 (December 2012)
“What You Say is What You Get: How Using ‘Hacker’ as a Synonym for ‘Criminal’ is Killing Political Speech Online,” IGNITE Talk, NewsFoo (December 2012)
“Activist DDOS Attacks: When Similes and Metaphors Fail,” solo talk, HOPE NUMBER 9 (July 2012) (video) (slides/notes)
“Policy Effects of Media Portrayals of Hackers,” SXSW Interactive (March 2012) (slides/audio)
“I Am Not A Lawyer: Competition!” (podcast) (co-produced and hosted with Dan Jones) Radio Berkman (September 2010)
“Participatory Culture and Interactivity in Literature,” Brackenridge Research Lecture (UHC, University of Pittsburgh) (July 2009)
Media Interviews and Write-ups
My research has been featured in Popular Mechanics, Boing Boing, and Der Speigel.
“CyberBunker: Hacking as Performance Art,” BusinessWeek, 4 April 2013
“The Pirate Bay and DDOS Actions,” Outriders, BBC5, 29 January 2013
“So geht ziviler Ungehorsam im Internet,” Der Spiegel, 28 December 2012
“Crowds,” The Digital Human, 4 June 2012
“doing it for the LULZ,” Too Much Information, WFMU, 9 April 2012
“SXSW: The hacker you think you know doesn’t exist,” Popular Mechanics, 16 March 2012
“LulzSec hackers take a dive on account of a stoolie,” Marketplace Tech Report, American Public Media, 7 March 2012
“Four signs ‘hacktivism’ has gone mainstream,” CBC News, 7 February 2012
“Hacktivism,” Click On, BBC4, 31 October 2011
“Hackers’ attacks alarm the Web,” The Boston Globe, 10 December 2010
“Cerco a WikiLeaks leva a temor de censura,” Folha de S. Paolo, 14 December 2010
“Impulsan en EU ‘apagón estratégico’ de internet,” Reforma, 6 March 2011