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Coding Democracy : How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism

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Overview

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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780262542289
  • ISBN-10: 0262542285
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publish Date: July 2021
  • Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
  • Page Count: 416

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