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ISBN:	1590207386 (ISBN13: 9781590207383)
Edition Language:	English

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web

Cole Stryker

ebook | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.39 | 209 Users | 39 Reviews

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Title	:	Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web
Author	:	Cole Stryker
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2011 by The Overlook Press
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Science. Technology

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"4chan is the Anti-Facebook," a site that radically encourages anonymity. It spawned the hacktivist group Anonymous, which famously defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by bringing down MasterCard's and Visa's Web sites. Created by a 15-year-old wunderkind in 2003, it is the creative force behind "the Web's most infectious memes and catchphrases" (Wired). Today it has over 12 million monthly users, with enormous social influence to match.

Epic Win is the first book to tell 4chan's story. Longtime blogger and 4chan expert Cole Stryker writes with a voice that is engrossingly informative and approachable. Whether examining the 4chan-provoked Jessi Slaughter saga and how cyber-bullying is part of our new reality, or explaining how Sarah Palin's email account was leaked, Epic Win proves 4chan's transformative cultural impact, and how it has influenced--and will continue to influence-- society at large.

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review originally written for CCLaP, and also this book wound up on my CCLaP best-of-2011 list.Okay, let me start by saying that I have never been on 4chan. I know what it is, I know what it does, and I know how it works, I've just never felt compelled to actually slog through it. But that doesn't mean I'm not utterly fascinated by it, and I certainly understand what an awesome (in both senses) cultural force it is, and how it represents everything new and amazing and unpredictable about the

The problem with this book was that it was positioned and marketed as a look deep inside Anonymous. Instead it was a primer on weird web culture for outsiders. There's a place for that, but that's not what I was looking for.

Boring. Follows the author as he explores 4chan and describes popular sites on the internet. It reads as several Wikipedia articles bound together. It tells nothing of Anonymous, nor how 4chan has "conquered" the web. DNF at 25%.

I've always regarded 4chan as a cesspool of moral depravity where people gather to spread the kind of hate that is so disgusting these they're too afraid to do it in the real world.I was so wrong. Of course I was; I had only visited the site a few times and never had any idea what was happening before my web-browsing eyes.I'm not a huge book reviewer so I'll keep this one short. The book's usefulness is in how it familiarizes the outsider with the inside development and happenings of Anonymous.

The best book of all time, purely amazing and absolutely perfect in every way. Seriously a better book then the bible, quran, and kama sutra combined. I can think of over 9,000 reasons to read it but a mandatory summer reading list ain't one.

It's not perfect (and it's obviously dated now) but there's a shocking lack of books about 4Chan despite it being a primary force in shaping the internet we all use today. This is an important story and props to Stryker for sticking his neck out there to document it and giving people something to put in bibliographies.

It's a book about 4chan. In a way, it's a fantastic book, because if you want to read a book about 4chan, this is pretty much the only game in town. In another way, it's a book about 4chan.The title implies it's about capital-A Anonymous, the semi-political group of scientology protestors/internet freedom fighters that grew out of 4chan and, while the book does cover that, that's only a very small portion of the entire book.Most of the book is devoted to the formation of 4chan, it's history