| Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia Contributor(s): Hogge, Becky (Author), Morris, Damien (Editor), Scally, Christopher (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1906110506 ISBN-13: 9781906110505 Publisher: Rebecca Hogge OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Computers | Information Technology - Political Science | Political Ideologies - General |
| Dewey: 322.42 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.08" W x 7.8" (0.54 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Barefoot into Cyberspace is an inside account of radical hacker culture and the forces that shape it, told in the year WikiLeaks took subversive geek politics into the mainstream. Including some of the earliest on-record material with Julian Assange you are likely to read, Barefoot Into Cyberspace is the ultimate guided tour of the hopes and ideals that are increasingly shaping world events. Beginning at the Chaos Communications Congress of December 2009, where WikiLeaks' Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg first presented their world-changing plans to a select audience of the planet's most skilful and motivated hackers, Barefoot Into Cyberspace interweaves an insider's take on the drama that ensued with a thoughtful mix of personal reflections and conversations with key figures in the community aimed at testing the hopes and dreams of the early internet pioneers against the realities of the web today. Will the internet make us more free? Or will the flood of information that courses across its networks only serve to enslave us to powerful interests that are emerging online? How will the institutions of the old world - politics, the media, corporations - affect the hackers' dream for a new world populated not by passive consumers but by active participants? And can we ever live up to their vision of technology's, and its users', potential? |