Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism
Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.
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Book Information
Publisher: | MIT Press |
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Publish Date: | 07/27/2021 |
Pages: | 416 |
ISBN-13: | 9780262542289 |
ISBN-10: | 0262542285 |
Language: | English |
Full Description
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.