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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140097403321

Autore

Sauter Molly

Titolo

The coming swarm : DDoS actions, hacktivism, and civil disobedience on the Internet / / by Molly Sauter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2014

ISBN

1-62892-670-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : digital, HTML file(s)

Disciplina

302.23/1

Soggetti

Civil disobedience

Cyberspace - Political aspects

Denial of service attacks - Political aspects

Hacktivism

Internet - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Ethan Zuckerman -- Chapter intro. Introduction: Searching for the digital street -- Chapter 1. DDoS and Civil Disobedience in historical context -- Chapter 2. Blockades and blockages: DDoS as direct action -- Chapter 3. Which way to the #press channel? DDoS as media manipulation -- Chapter 4. Show me what an activist looks like: DDoS as a method of biographical impact -- Chapter 5. Identity, anonymity, and responsibility: DDoS and the personal -- Chapter 6. LOIC will tear us apart: DDoS tool development and design -- Chapter 7. Against the man: State and corporate responses to DDoS actions -- Conclusion: The future of DDoS -- Index -- Biographies.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.