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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Webb, Maureen.     Subjects     Hacktivism.     Internet -- Political aspects.     Cyberspace -- Political aspects.     Electronic surveillance -- Political aspects.     Hacking -- Political aspects.     Internet -- Social aspects.     Democratization.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Webb, Maureen.       by title:      Coding democracy : h...       by call number:      303.4833 W367c     Search the Web     Webb, Maureen.     Hacktivism.     Internet -- Political aspects.     Cyberspace -- Political aspects.     Electronic surveillance -- Political aspects.     Hacking -- Political aspects.     Internet -- Social aspects.     Democratization.       MARC Display

Coding democracy : how hackers are disrupting power, surveillance, and authoritarianism / Maureen Webb ; foreword by Cory Doctorow. by Webb, Maureen. The MIT Press, 2020. Call #: 303.4833 W367c Subjects Hacktivism.   Internet -- Political aspects.   Cyberspace -- Political aspects.   Electronic surveillance -- Political aspects.   Hacking -- Political aspects.   Internet -- Social aspects.   Democratization. ISBN:  9780262043557 (hc.) Alternate title:  How hackers are disrupting power, surveillance, and authoritarianism Description:  xxii, 389 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-368) and index. Summary:  "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. Webb travels to Berlin, where she visits the Chaos Communication Camp, a flagship event in the hacker world; to Silicon Valley, where she reports on the Apple-FBI case, the significance of Russian troll farms, and the hacking of tractor software by desperate farmers; to Barcelona, to meet the hacker group XNet, which has helped bring nearly 100 prominent Spanish bankers and politicians to justice for their role in the 2008 financial crisis; and to Harvard and MIT, to investigate the institutionalization of hacking. Webb describes an amazing array of hacker experiments that could dramatically change the current political economy. These ambitious hacks aim to displace such tech monoliths as Facebook and Amazon; enable worker cooperatives to kill platforms like Uber; give people control over their data; automate trust; and provide citizens a real say in governance, along with capacity to reach consensus."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.4833 W367c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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