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Information politics liberation and exploitation in the digital society / Tim Jordan.
LIBRA HM851 .J67 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jordan, Tim, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics.
- Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Political aspects.
- Internet.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Information society--Politics and government.
- Information society.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 232 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Conflict over information is a central part of twenty-first century life. Tim Jordan examines the nature of an information politics that has emerged with the rise of mass digital cultures and the internet. He locates it within a field of power and rebellion that is populated by social and political struggles. This book is the ideal place to start for anyone approaching the rapidly changing terrain of digital culture and conflict. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Theory of Information Power
- 1 Recursion 29
- 2 Technologies' Embrace 45
- 3 Network and Protocol Theory: Dis/Organising Information Power 64
- Part 2 Platforms
- 4 Clouds 83
- 5 Securitisation of the Internet 98
- 6 Social Media Networks 120
- Part 3 Battlegrounds
- 7 Battlegrounds and the iPad 143
- 8 Death and Gaming 160
- 9 Hacktivism: Operation Tunisia, Modular Tactics and Information Activism 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780745333663
- 0745333664
- 178371297X
- 9781783712977
- 1783712961
- 9781783712960
- 0745333672
- 9780745333670
- OCLC:
- 892455088
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