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    Coding Democracy

    How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism

    Author Maureen Webb
    Foreword by Cory Doctorow
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    On sale Jul 27, 2021 | 416 Pages | 9780262542289
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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" democracy into cyberspace.
    Chapter 1
    The Hacker Ethic--Germany's Chaos Computer Club and the Genealogy of the Hacker Ethos In Berlin
    Chapter 2
    The Hacker Challenge--Cypherpunks on the Electronic Frontier
    Chapter 3
    A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century--Privacy for the Weak, Transparency for the Powerful
    Chapter 4
    The Burden of Security--The Challenges for the Ordinary User
    Chapter 5
    Democracy in Cyperspace--First, the Governance Problems
    Chapter 6
    Culture Clash--Hermes and the Italian Hacking Team
    Chapter 7
    Democracy in Cyperspace--Then, the Design Problems
    Chapter 8
    The Gathering Storm--The New Crypto--and Information and Net Neutrality and Free Software and Trust-Busting--Wars
    Chapter 9
    Hacker Occupy--Bringing Occupy into Cyberspace and the Digital Era
    Chapter 10
    Distributed Democracy--Experiments in Spain, Italy, and Canada
    Chapter 11
    The Value and Risk of Transgressive Acts--Corrective Feedback
    Chapter 12
    Mainstreaming Hackerdom--A New Condition of Freedom
    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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    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.

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1
    The Hacker Ethic--Germany's Chaos Computer Club and the Genealogy of the Hacker Ethos In Berlin
    Chapter 2
    The Hacker Challenge--Cypherpunks on the Electronic Frontier
    Chapter 3
    A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century--Privacy for the Weak, Transparency for the Powerful
    Chapter 4
    The Burden of Security--The Challenges for the Ordinary User
    Chapter 5
    Democracy in Cyperspace--First, the Governance Problems
    Chapter 6
    Culture Clash--Hermes and the Italian Hacking Team
    Chapter 7
    Democracy in Cyperspace--Then, the Design Problems
    Chapter 8
    The Gathering Storm--The New Crypto--and Information and Net Neutrality and Free Software and Trust-Busting--Wars
    Chapter 9
    Hacker Occupy--Bringing Occupy into Cyberspace and the Digital Era
    Chapter 10
    Distributed Democracy--Experiments in Spain, Italy, and Canada
    Chapter 11
    The Value and Risk of Transgressive Acts--Corrective Feedback
    Chapter 12
    Mainstreaming Hackerdom--A New Condition of Freedom

    Author

    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.
    Maureen Webb View titles by Maureen Webb

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    • Coding Democracy
      Coding Democracy
      How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism
      Maureen Webb
      9780262357111
      Ebook
      The MIT Press
      Apr 07, 2020
    • Coding Democracy
      Coding Democracy
      How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism
      Maureen Webb
      9780262357111
      Ebook
      The MIT Press
      Apr 07, 2020

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