The Revolution will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War - Couverture souple

Brooke, Heather

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099538083 ISBN 13 : 9780099538080

Editeur : Windmill Books, 2012

Synopsis

The Revolution Will be Digitised Takes you inside the "Information War" and explores the urgent questions of the digital age: where is the balance between freedom and security? In an online world, does privacy still exist? And can the internet empower individuals, or usher in a new age of censorship, surveillance and oppression? Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

There's more information in the world than ever - but who's in control?

At the centre sits the Establishment: governments, corporations and powerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than ever before. Circling them is a new generation of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show.

In her gripping, revelatory new book, award-winning journalist and campaigner Heather Brooke takes us inside the Information War, from the hackerspaces of Boston and Berlin to the UK's journalism hub and Iceland's free speech revolution; from the headquarters of Google and Facebook to Collateral Murder, Cablegate and the murky word of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
Along the way she explores the most urgent questions of the digital age: where is the balance between freedom and security? In an online world, does privacy still exist? And will the internet empower individuals, or usher in a new age of censorship, surveillance and oppression?

Praise for The Silent State

'Passionate, eloquent and persuasive' Times Book of the Week

'Wonderful... Heather Brooke has changed British public culture and earned an essential place in our national history' Peter Oborne

'***** If you care about our so-called democracy, you must read this profoundly shocking book' Mail on Sunday

Présentation de l'éditeur

There is more information in the world than ever before - but who's in control?

At the centre sits the Establishment: governments, corporations and powerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than ever before. Circling them is a new generation of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show.

Award-winning journalist and campaigner Heather Brooke takes us inside the Information War and explores the most urgent questions of the digital age: where is the balance between freedom and security? In an online world, does privacy still exist? And will the internet empower individuals, or usher in a new age of censorship, surveillance and oppression?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Windmill Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099538083
• ISBN 13: 9780099538080
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272