The Coming Swarm - DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Molly Sauter
Foreword by:	Ethan Zuckerman
Dimensions:	197 x 127 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-62356-822-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
LSN:	1-62356-822-6
Barcode:	9781623568221

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