Information politics
Subtitle: liberation and exploitation in the digital society
By: Tim Jordan
Series: Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics; Digital barricades
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780745333670; 9780745333663
Subjects: Social aspects; Politics and government; Political aspects; Internet; Information society
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : information as a politics; title: Part 1. Theory of information power. Recursion; title: Technologies' embrace; title: Network and protocol theory : dis/organising information power; title: Part 2. Platforms. Clouds; title: Securitisation of the Internet; title: Social media networks; title: Part 3. Battlegrounds. Battlegrounds and the iPad; title: Death and gaming; title: Hacktivism : operation Tunisia, modular tactics and information activism; title: Conclusion : information exploitation and information liberation.