Coding Democracy How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism |
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| Author:
| Webb, Maureen |
| Foreword by:
| Doctorow, Cory |
| ISBN: | 978-0-262-54228-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2021 |
| Publisher: | MIT Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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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,...
More 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.