The Revolution Will be Digitised : Dispatches from the Information War

Description

There is more information in the world than ever before - but who is in control? At the centre is the Establishment: governments, corporations andpowerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than at any other time in history. 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. In her gripping, revelatory new book, award-winning journalist and campaigner Heather Brooke takes us inside the Information War, from the hackerspaces of Boston and Berlin to the UK’s journalism hub and Iceland’s free speech revolution; from the headquarters of Google and Facebook to Collateral Murder, Cablegate and the murky world of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Along the way Brooke explores the most urgent questions of the digital age: 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?

Author description

Heather Brooke is a freelance journalist and Freedom of Information campaigner famous for uncovering the MPs' expenses scandal. She is a visiting professor at City University’s Department of Journalism and is also the author of Your Right to Know and The Silent State. She has won numerous awards, including the Judges' Prize at the 2010 British Press Awards.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9780434020904
• Publisher : Cornerstone
• Imprint : William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date : August 2011
• Dimensions : 216mm X 135mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Availability date : September 2011
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 256
• Dewey classification : 303.4833
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Heather Brooke