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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” d… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-262-35711-1
  • EAN: 9780262357111
  • Produktnummer: 34355238
  • Verlag: MIT Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 857 KB
  • Abbildungen: NONE

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.

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