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

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Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism - Webb, Maureen, and Doctorow, Cory (Foreword by)
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"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 ...

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Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism 2021, MIT Press

ISBN-13: 9780262542289

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Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism 2020, MIT Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780262043557

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