The Revolution Will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War

Heather Brooke
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There is more information in the world than ever before - but who's in control?At the centre sits the governments, corporations and powerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than ever before. Circling them is a new generation of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show.Award-winning journalist and campaigner Heather Brooke takes us inside the Information War and explores the most urgent questions of the digital where is the balance between freedom and security? In an online world, does privacy still exist? And will the internet empower individuals, or usher in a new age of censorship, surveillance and oppression?
Genres: NonfictionPoliticsTechnologyInternetSociology
274 Pages

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