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

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Maureen Webb Cory Doctorow

Coding Democracy

How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism

Maureen Webb, Cory Doctorow

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MIT Press
01 June 2021

Computing: general

Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.

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.

By: Maureen Webb, Cory Doctorow
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262542289
ISBN 10: 0262542285
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

Coders seeking to do good in the world will find much inspiration here. --Kirkus Reviews She's building a powerful case for the fact that technology as we know it--omnipresent, flawed, world-improving--has become so entrenched and static that it really does need the hackers worrying the edges of its firewalls. In Webb's telling, hackers aren't heroes destined to bring the world to a grand new order of their own transgressive imaginings. They're agents of positive chaos. --Wired 'Coding Democracy' is a thorough, well-written work of scholarship that should be seen as a welcome addition to a growing body of work about the relationship between computing, society and government. A lawyer, Webb is able to weave the hacker narrative into various strands of thought relating to political science, history, legislation, law enforcement, regulations, civil law, politics and ethics. --Journal of Cyber Policy