Maureen Webb
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In [this book], Maureen Webb offers another views. 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...