Molly Sauter

The Coming Swarm (eBook, ePUB)

DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628921526
• Artikelnr.: 48421820

Autorenporträt

M.R. Sauter is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. They are the author of The Coming Swarm: DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet. They received their PhD from McGill University in 2020, and they hold a masters degree in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. They have held research fellowships at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, and New America.
Their research has been featured by Popular Mechanics, BoingBoing, the BBC, NPR, the CBC, Der Spiegel, and the Christian Science Monitor. They reside in Montreal, Quebec, and lives on the internet, blogging at oddletters.com and tweeting @oddletters.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword by Ethan Zuckerman Introduction: Searching for the
Digital Street CHAPTER 1: DDoS AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CHAPTER 2: BLOCKADES AND BLOCKAGES: DDoS AS DIRECT ACTION CHAPTER 3: WHICH
WAY TO THE #PRESS CHANNEL? DDoS AS MEDIA MANIPULATION CHAPTER 4: SHOW ME
WHAT AN ACTIVIST LOOKS LIKE: DDoS AS A METHOD OF BIOGRAPHICAL IMPACT
CHAPTER 5: IDENTITY, ANONYMITY, AND RESPONSIBILITY CHAPTER 6: LOIC WILL
TEAR US APART: DDoS TOOL DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CHAPTER 7: AGAINST THE MAN:
STATE AND CORPORATE RESPONSES TO DDoS ACTIONS CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF
DDOS Bibliography Index

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AcknowledgmentsForeword by Ethan ZuckermanIntroduction: Searching for the Digital StreetCHAPTER 1: DDoS AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTCHAPTER 2: BLOCKADES AND BLOCKAGES: DDoS AS DIRECT ACTIONCHAPTER 3: WHICH WAY TO THE #PRESS CHANNEL? DDoS AS MEDIA MANIPULATIONCHAPTER 4: SHOW ME WHAT AN ACTIVIST LOOKS LIKE: DDoS AS A METHOD OF BIOGRAPHICAL IMPACTCHAPTER 5: IDENTITY, ANONYMITY, AND RESPONSIBILITYCHAPTER 6: LOIC WILL TEAR US APART: DDoS TOOL DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGNCHAPTER 7: AGAINST THE MAN: STATE AND CORPORATE RESPONSES TO DDoS ACTIONSCONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF DDOSBibliographyIndex

Rezensionen

Questions about online protest tactics have never been more fraught-as the analog police militarize their response to legitimate dissent, so, too, have the Internet cops decided that any online protest is cyber-terrorism. Sauter's work places one of the most urgent political questions of the 21st century into much-needed context. Cory Doctorow, EFF Fellow and co-editor of Boing Boing