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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262357104
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. Webb travels to Berlin, where she visits the Chaos Communication Camp, a flagship event in the hacker world; to Silicon Valley, where she reports on the Apple-FBI case, the significance of Russian troll farms, and the hacking of tractor software by desperate farmers; to Barcelona, to meet the hacker group XNet, which has helped bring nearly 100 prominent Spanish bankers and politicians to justice for their role in the 2008 financial crisis; and to Harvard and MIT, to investigate the institutionalization of hacking. Webb describes an amazing array of hacker experiments that could dramatically change the current political economy. These ambitious hacks aim to displace such tech monoliths as Facebook and Amazon; enable worker cooperatives to kill platforms like Uber ; give people control over their data; automate trust; and provide citizens a real say in governance, along with capacity to reach consensus. Coding Democracy is not just another optimistic declaration of technological utopianism; instead, it provides the tools for an urgently needed upgrade of democracy in the digital era.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262357104
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 10 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11669.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262357104