Information Politics

Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social media.In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in relation to a general understanding of the nature of an information politics that emerged with the rise of mass digital cultures and the internet. He locates it within a field of power and rebellion that is populated by many interwoven social and political conflicts including gender, class and ecology.The exploitations both facilitated by, and contested through increases in information flows; the embedding of information technologies in daily life, and the intersection of network and control protocols are all examined. Anyone hoping to get to grips with the rapidly changing terrain of digital culture and conflict should start here.

A critical look into how far our lives are controlled by modern digital systems, and how digital information is used by the powerful.

Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Information as a PoliticsPart I: Theory of Information Power1. Recursion2. Technologies' Embrace3. Network and Protocol Theory: Dis/Organising Information PowerPart II: Platforms4. Clouds5. Securitisation of the Internet6. Social Media NetworksPart III: Battlegrounds7. Battlegrounds and the iPad8. Death and Gaming9. Hacktivism: Operation Tunisia, Modular Tactics and Information ActivismConclusion: Information Exploitation and Information LiberationBibliographyIndex