The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
by Molly Sauter
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"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 show more 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"-- show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 2014
- Dedication
- To my parents, Beth and Eric, for believing
studying the internet is a real thing. - First words
- On November 28, 2010, Wikileaks, along with the New York Times, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Le Monde, and The Guardian began releasing documents from a leaked cache of 251,287 unclassified and classified US diplomatic cables, copie... (show all)d from the closed Department of Defense network SIPRnet.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)This book is presented as a step toward the robust analysis of these repertoires of contention in the online space that has become such an integral part of our modern culture.
- Blurbers
- Cory Doctorow; Douglas Rushkoff; Jonathan Zittrain; Gabriella Coleman; Bruce Schneier; Clay Shirky
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Technology, History
- DDC/MDS
- 302.23 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Mass Communication & Media Communication Media (Means of communication)
- LCC
- HM851 .S2375 — Social sciences Sociology (General) Sociology Social change
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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