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Author Jordan, Tim, 1959- author.

Title Information politics : liberation and exploitation in the digital society / Tim Jordan.

Publication Info. London : Pluto Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics
Digital barricades.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index.
Contents 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 Tunsia, modular tactics and information activism -- Conclusion : Information exploitation and information liberation.
Summary 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 struggles. This book is the ideal place to start for anyone approaching the rapidly changing terrain of digital culture and conflict -- from back cover.
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Subject Internet -- Political aspects.
Internet -- Political aspects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Information society -- Politics and government.
Information society.
Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Jordan, Tim. Information politics . Liberation and exploitation in the digital society
ISBN 1783712961 (electronic book)
9781783712960 (electronic book)
9780745333670 (electronic book)
0745333672 (electronic book)
9781783712977 (electronic book)
178371297X (electronic book)
9780745333663 (paperback)
0745333664 (paperback)
9781783712984 (kindle)
Standard No. ebc3386797