February 2016<\/p>\n
A case study about Anonymous in Brazil opens the HCS-Manguinhos supplement dedicated to cyberactivism (vol.22 ten. 2015<\/a>). In the article\u00a0Between control and hacker activism: the political actions of Anonymous Brasil<\/a>, the journalist Murilo Bansi Machado analyses the\u00a0political character of this movement, describing \u00a0its motivations, methods and the ethics of its political actions.<\/p>\n This article, based in the autor\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0master\u2019s thesis proposes a\u00a0comparative analysis of two operations carried out by Brazilian Anonymous adherents in 2012: #OpWeeksPayment and #OpGlobo.<\/p>\n The work began with a search for the origins and principal leaders of the collective. Twenty-two people involved with Anonymous Brasil \u2013 mostly hackers \u2013 were interviewed. Nevertheless,\u00a0Murilo notes that \u00a0the Anonymous network does not consist only of hackers. On the contrary: its supporters include activists with very distinct backgrounds.<\/p>\n Hacker activism appears as a response to the control society. Day after day, hacktivists join together to, among innumerable other activities: release information of public interest; promote protection of Internet user privacy; develop inclusive software; and, more specifically in the case of Anonymous, carry out direct digital actions in protest against governments and corporations.<\/p>\n Read more in HCSM-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n Jerez, Ariel, Maceiras, Sergio D\u2019Antonio and Maestu, Enrique.\u00a0Esferas p\u00fablicas, crisis pol\u00edtica e internet: el surgimiento electoral de Podemos<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Dic 2015, vol.22, p.1573-1596. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n