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Information politics : liberation and exploitation in the digital society /

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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Jordan, Tim, 1959- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Pluto Press, 2015.
Collection:Digital barricades.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.