Title Information politics : liberation and exploitation in the digital society / Tim Jordan.

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	London : Pluto Press, [2015]
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Description	1 online resource (viii, 232 pages).
Series	Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics
	Digital barricades.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index.
Note	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 9, 2015).
Contents	Introduction: Information as a politics -- Theory of information power. Recursion -- Technologies' embrace -- Network and protocol theory: dis/organising information power -- Platforms. Clouds -- Securitisation of the Internet -- Social media networks -- Battlegrounds. Battlegrounds and the iPad -- Death and Gaming -- Hacktivism: operation Tunsia, modular tactics and information activism -- Conclusion: Information exploitation and information liberation.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Internet -- Political aspects.
	Internet -- Social aspects.
	Information society -- Politics and government.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
	Internet -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00977197
	Internet -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01766793
	Information theory.
Other Form:	Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Jordan, Tim. Information politics . Liberation and exploitation in the digital society
Standard No.	ebc3386797
ISBN	1783712961 (electronic bk.)
	9781783712960 (electronic bk.)
	9780745333670 (electronic bk.)
	0745333672 (electronic bk.)
	9781783712977 (electronic bk.)
	178371297X (electronic bk.)
	9780745333663 (paperback)
	0745333664 (paperback)
	9781783712984 (kindle)

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