03476cam a2200469 i 4500 20936833 BJBSDDR 20250530160619.0 ta 190417s2020 mau b 001 0 eng 2019018826 9780262043557 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262043556 (hardcover : alk. paper) DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc HV 6773 W367c 2020 364.16/8 Webb, Maureen 42118 Coding democracy : how hackers are disrupting power, surveillance, and authoritarianism / Maureen Webb ; forword by Cory Doctorow. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2020. xxii, 389 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Hacktivism. Hacktivismo 42288 Cyberspace Political aspects. Ciberespacio Aspectos políticos 18214 Internet Social aspects. Internet Aspectos sociales 1307 Computer security. Seguridad informática 15435 Democratization. Democratización 6865 Doctorow, Cory Efram, 1971- writer of foreword. 42119 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 123509 123509 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-05-20 0 HV 6773 W367c 2020 00000192801 2025-05-20 00:00:00 1 2025-05-20 BK