The Coming Swarm: Ddos Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet

ISBN-13: 9781623564568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str.

Molly Sauter

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

MollySauter is a PhD student in Communication Studies at McGill University inMontreal.She holds a SM from MIT inComparative Media Studies.Prior toattending MIT she worked as a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet andSociety at Harvard University.