Maureen Webb

Coding Democracy

How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism

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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 de… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Doctorow, Cory

ISBN: 978-0-262-54228-9
EAN: 9780262542289
Produktnummer: 34149137
Verlag: MIT Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 416 S.

Über den Autor

Maureen Webb is a labor lawyer and human rights activist. She is the author of Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World and has taught national security law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia.