{"product_id":"coding-democracy-isbn-9780262542289","title":"Coding Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eHackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In \u003ci\u003eCoding Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003eThe Hacker Ethic--Germany's Chaos Computer Club and the Genealogy of the Hacker Ethos In Berlin\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2\u003cbr\u003eThe Hacker Challenge--Cypherpunks on the Electronic Frontier\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3\u003cbr\u003eA Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century--Privacy for the Weak, Transparency for the Powerful\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4\u003cbr\u003eThe Burden of Security--The Challenges for the Ordinary User\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5\u003cbr\u003eDemocracy in Cyperspace--First, the Governance Problems\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6\u003cbr\u003eCulture Clash--Hermes and the Italian Hacking Team\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7\u003cbr\u003eDemocracy in Cyperspace--Then, the Design Problems\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8\u003cbr\u003eThe Gathering Storm--The New Crypto--and Information and Net Neutrality and Free Software and Trust-Busting--Wars\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9\u003cbr\u003eHacker Occupy--Bringing Occupy into Cyberspace and the Digital Era\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10\u003cbr\u003eDistributed Democracy--Experiments in Spain, Italy, and Canada\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11\u003cbr\u003eThe Value and Risk of Transgressive Acts--Corrective Feedback\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12\u003cbr\u003eMainstreaming Hackerdom--A New Condition of FreedomMaureen Webb is a labor lawyer and human rights activist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eIllusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9\/11 World\u003c\/i\u003e and has taught national security law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia.Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300769190117,"sku":"NP9780262542289","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262542289.jpg?v=1767723885","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/coding-democracy-isbn-9780262542289","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}