Cole Stryker
Writer and Media Strategist, Author of Hacking the Future
Cole Stryker is a writer and media strategist based in New York City. He is the author of Epic Win for Anonymous, the first book to tell the story of the Internet’s memetic playground called 4chan and the hacktivist group Anonymous, from which it spawned. He also authored Hacking the Future, a broader history of anonymity as a social construct that dissects how identity brokers like Facebook and Google control and monetize your identity, and explains how recent manifestations of anonymous activism and free speech are raging against these systems of control. Stryker’s writing has appeared in Salon, Vice, Boing Boing, The NY Observer, The Huffington Post, Storyboard, Rhizome, The Daily Dot, Nerve, Popmatters and elsewhere.
Cole Stryker is a writer and media strategist based in New York City. He is the author of Epic Win for Anonymous, the first book to tell the story of the Internet’s memetic playground called 4chan and the hacktivist group Anonymous, from which it spawned. He also authored Hacking the Future, a broader history of anonymity as a social construct that dissects how identity brokers like Facebook and Google control and monetize your identity, and explains how recent manifestations of anonymous activism and free speech are raging against these systems of control. Stryker’s writing has appeared in Salon, Vice, Boing Boing, The NY Observer, The Huffington Post, Storyboard, Rhizome, The Daily Dot, Nerve, Popmatters and elsewhere.
