Aaron Mauro

Hacking in the Humanities (eBook, ePUB)

Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital Future

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard. This book looks to speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the digital humanities to bring a human - and humanistic - perspective to the issue of cybersecurity. It argues that through these stories we are able to predict the future political, cultural, and social realities emerging from technological change.

Making the case for a security-minded humanities education, this book examines pressing issues of data security, privacy, social engineering and more, illustrating how the humanities offer the critical, technical, and ethical insights needed to oppose the normalization of surveillance, disinformation, and coercion.

Within this counter-cultural approach to technology, this book offers a model of activism to intervene and meaningfully resist government and corporate oversight online. In doing so, it argues for a wider notion of literacy, which includes the ability to write and fight the computer code that shapes our lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350231009
• Artikelnr.: 63534500

Autorenporträt

Aaron Mauro is Associate Professor of Digital Media at Brock University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Human Exploits: An Introduction to Hacking and the Humanities
2. "Hack the Planet": Pop Hackers and the Demands of a Real World
Resistance
3. Academic Attack Surfaces: Culture Jamming the Future and XML Bombs
4. Supply Chain Attacks and Knowledge Networks: Network Sovereignty and the
Interplanetary Internet
5.Cryptographic Agility and the Right to Privacy: Secret Writing and the
Cypherpunks
6. Biohacking and Autonomous Androids: Human Evolution and Biometric Data
7. Gray Hat Humanities: Surveillance Capitalism, Object Oriented Ontology,
and Design Fiction
Selected Bibliography
Index