The coming swarm : DDoS actions, hacktivism, and civil disobedience on the Internet / Molly Sauter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sauter, Molly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Political aspects.

Internet.

Denial of service attacks--Political aspects.

Denial of service attacks.

Hacktivism.

Civil disobedience.

Cyberspace--Political aspects.

Cyberspace.

Physical Description:

xv, 168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2014.

Summary:

"This book examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing. When there is a message to convey, words to get out, people to organize, many will turn to the internet as a theater for that activity. As familiar and widely accepted activist tools--petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in campaigns and others--find equivalent practices in the online space, is there also room for the tactics of disruption and civil disobedience that are equally familiar from the realm of street marches, occupations, and sit-ins? Grounding the analysis historically, focusing on early deployments of activist DDOS as well as modern instances to trace its development over time, this book uses activist DDOS actions as the foundation of a larger analysis of the practice of disruptive civil disobedience on the internet"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgments Foreword by Ethan ZuckermanIntroduction: Searching for the Digital Street CHAPTER 1: DDoS AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT CHAPTER 2: BLOCKADES AND BLOCKAGES: DDoS AS DIRECT ACTION CHAPTER 3: WHICH WAY TO THE #PRESS CHANNEL? DDoS AS MEDIA MANIPULATION CHAPTER 4: SHOW ME WHAT AN ACTIVIST LOOKS LIKE: DDoS AS A METHOD OF BIOGRAPHICAL IMPACT CHAPTER 5: IDENTITY, ANONYMITY, AND RESPONSIBILITY CHAPTER 6: LOIC WILL TEAR US APART: DDoS TOOL DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CHAPTER 7: AGAINST THE MAN: STATE AND CORPORATE RESPONSES TO DDoS ACTIONSCONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF DDOS Bibliography Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781623568221

1623568226

9781623564568

1623564565

OCLC:

860396076