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1 online resource (viii, 232 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics
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Digital barricades.
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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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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
Subject |
Internet -- Political aspects.
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Internet -- Political aspects. |
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects. |
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Information society -- Politics and government.
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Information society. |
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Politics and government. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Jordan, Tim. Information politics . Liberation and exploitation in the digital society |
ISBN |
1783712961 (electronic book) |
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9781783712960 (electronic book) |
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9780745333670 (electronic book) |
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0745333672 (electronic book) |
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9781783712977 (electronic book) |
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178371297X (electronic book) |
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9780745333663 (paperback) |
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0745333664 (paperback) |
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9781783712984 (kindle) |
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ebc3386797 |
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