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The Coming Swarm

By Molly Sauter

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The Coming Swarm

By Molly Sauter

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. What is Hacktivism? In The Coming Swarm, rising star Molly Sauter 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, or people to unify, 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 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? With a historically grounded analysis, and a focus on early deployments of activist DDOS as well as modern instances to trace its development over time, The Coming Swarm uses activist DDOS actions as the foundation of a larger analysis of the practice of disruptive civil disobedience on the internet.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2014-12-18
Publication Date:
2014-10-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1623564565
ISBN13:
9781623564568
Weight:
232 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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