Information politics liberation and exploitation in the digital society
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Pluto Press
2015, 2015
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| Series: | Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of 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 Tunisia, modular tactics and information activism
- Conclusion : information exploitation and information liberation
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index