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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Main Author: Jordan, Tim, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2015.
Series:Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-229) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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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