Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Energy, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism (Mit Press)

Hackers have a foul status, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb gives one other view. Hackers, she argues, may be important disruptors. Hacking is turning into a follow, an ethos, and a metaphor for a brand new wave of activism through which abnormal residents are inventing new types of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital period. Confronted with concentrations of energy, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new expertise, the hacking motion is making an attempt to “construct out” democracy into our on-line world.