Resistance, Liberation Technology and Human Rights in the Digital Age
Authors: Ziccardi, Giovanni
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- About this book
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This book explains strategies, techniques, legal issues and the relationships between digital resistance activities, information warfare actions, liberation technology and human rights. It studies the concept of authority in the digital era and focuses in particular on the actions of so-called digital dissidents. Moving from the difference between hacking and computer crimes, the book explains concepts of hacktivism, the information war between states, a new form of politics (such as open data movements, radical transparency, crowd sourcing and “Twitter Revolutions”), and the hacking of political systems and of state technologies. The book focuses on the protection of human rights in countries with oppressive regimes.
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From the reviews:
“Human rights seem to be in the news continuously. This book combines that topic with digital technology and thoughts on the Arab Spring (resistance and some form of liberation). … The references are very up to date. If such are of interest to you, or if you are a student of international law, this may be a title to read.” (David Bellin, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2013)
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Opening Remarks: Hacking and Digital Dissidence
Pages 1-25
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Digital Resistance, Digital Liberties and Digital Transparency
Pages 27-71
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Hacking and Digital Dissidence Activities
Pages 73-123
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Digital Resistance, Digital Liberties and Human Rights
Pages 125-160
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The Use of Liberation Technology
Pages 161-185
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Resistance, Liberation Technology and Human Rights in the Digital Age
- Authors
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- Giovanni Ziccardi
- Series Title
- Law, Governance and Technology Series
- Series Volume
- 7
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Netherlands
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-5276-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-5276-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-5275-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9725-3
- Series ISSN
- 2352-1902
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 328
- Topics
