Coding Democracy

How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism

von Cory Doctorow, Maureen Webb

416 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

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• ISBN: 9780262542289
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
• Größe: 223 x 145 mm
• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd