236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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The revolution will not be televised. But will it be online instead? When the Internet first took off, we heard a lot about its potential for social change. We heard it would revitalize democracy. We heard it would empower us. We heard we would all be publishers, working together to create a new public sphere. Future Active tests such claims. With fierce intelligence and wit, Graham Meikle... Read more
Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Backing Into The Future 2. Remote Control 3. alt.media 4. Open Publishing, Open Technologies 5. Turning Signs Into Question Marks 6. Hack Attacks and Electronic Civil Disobedience Epilogue Notes Index
Biography
Graham Meikle is Associate Lecturer of Media and Communication at Macquarie University in Sydney.
"Future Active is a report from the frontlines of the guerrilla media war. Writing in brisk, skip-the-bullshit style, Meikle chronicles and critiques the tactical strikes of hacktivists, culture jammers and other mutant free radicals who are putting the Internet to political use." -- Mark Dery, author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
"Future Active is a report from the frontlines of the guerrilla media war. Writing in brisk, skip-the-bullshit style, Meikle chronicles and critiques the tactical strikes of hacktivists, culture jammers and other mutant free radicals who are putting the Internet to political use." -- Mark Dery, author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
"Future Active is a report from the frontlines of the guerrilla media war. Writing in brisk, skip-the-bullshit style, Meikle chronicles and critiques the tactical strikes of hacktivists, culture jammers and other mutant free radicals who are putting the Internet to political use --Mark Dery, author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium ."
