Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism

by Maureen Webb

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043556
• ISBN13: 9780262043557
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"