Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 232 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781783712960
Series Statement:
Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics
Content:
Conflict over information is a central part of twenty-first century life. Tim Jordan examines the nature of an information politics that has emergede with the rise of mass digital cultures and the internet. He located 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. -- from back cover
Content:
Introduction : information as a politics -- Part 1. Theory of information power. Recursion -- Technologies' embrace -- Network and protocol theory : dis/organising information power -- Part 2. Platforms. Clouds -- Securitisation of the Internet -- Social media networks -- Part 3. Battlegrounds. Battlegrounds and the iPad -- Death and gaming -- Hacktivism : operation Tunisia, modular tactics and information activism -- Conclusion : information exploitation and information liberation
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783712984
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783712977
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745333670
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745333663
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Informationspolitik
;
Social Media
;
Zivilgesellschaft
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