Resistance, Liberation Technology and Human Rights in the Digital Age

By: Giovanni Ziccardi

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Synopsis: This book explains strategies, techniques, legal issues and the relationships between digital resistance activities, information warfare actions, liberation technology and human rights. It studies the concept of authority in the digital era and focuses in particular on the actions of so-called digital dissidents. Moving from the difference between hacking and computer crimes, the book explains concepts of hacktivism, the information war between states, a new form of politics (such as open data movements, radical transparency, crowd sourcing and "Twitter Revolutions"), and the hacking of political systems and of state technologies. The book focuses on the protection of human rights in countries with oppressive regimes.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9789400752764
Related ISBNs:: 9789400752757
Publisher:: Springer Netherlands
Date of Addition:: 09/09/16
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Reference, Science, Computers and Internet, Technology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.