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The coming swarm : DDoS actions, hacktivism, and civil disobedience on the Internet

Sauter, Molly

Overview

\"This book 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, people to organize, 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? Grounding the analysis historically, focusing on early deployments of activist DDOS as well as modern instances to trace its development over time, this book uses activist DDOS actions as the foundation of a larger analysis of the practice of disruptive civil disobedience on the internet\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsburg Publishing Inc
• Subject: Internet Political aspects. / Denial of service attacks Political aspects. / Hacktivism. / Civil disobedience. / Cyberspace Political aspects. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
• ISBN: 9781623568221, 1623568226, 9781623564568, 1623564565

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HM851.S2375 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE