There have been several, though not many, studies of online networks, cyberactivism, hacktivism, digital repertoires of contention, cyber diffusion, and decentralized organizational forms of online movements. My purpose in doing so is to argue that Anonymous is part of a larger new social movement, which I call the Freedom of Information movement, as well as to show how its unique characteristics which have resulted from globalization and new digital technologies are making it necessary for sociologists to update and expand upon our existing theories and concepts of social movements. I outline this framework in the literature review section of this paper as nine distinct characteristics, each pertaining to a different aspect of social movement research. The main task of this paper is to analyze the online collective known as Anonymous as a case study using the theoretical framework of traditional social movement studies.
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