Coding Democracy : How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0262542285
ISBN-13
9780262542289
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Imprint
MIT Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 27th, 2021
Print length
416 Pages
Weight
534 grams
Dimensions
14.50 x 22.20 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Information technology: general issues
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Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.
Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology, the hacking movement is trying to "build out" democracy into cyberspace.
Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology, the hacking movement is trying to "build out" democracy into cyberspace.
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