| Author/Contributor(s): | Webb, Maureen; Doctorow, Cory |
| Publisher: | The MIT Press |
| Date: | 7/27/2021 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.