Description
| Product ID: | 9780262542289 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Coding Democracy |
| Subtitle: | How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism |
| Authors: | Author: Cory Doctorow, Maureen Webb |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Information technology: general topics, Information technology: general issues |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | MIT Press |
| Publisher Name: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-07-27 |
