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Hacktivism

Here are entered works on the practice of breaking into computer systems and using techniques such as defacing or disabling Web sites, redirects, denial-of-service attacks, information theft, Web site parodies, etc., for politically or socially motivated purposes.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Internet -- Political aspects
• Internet -- Social aspects
• Hacking
• Computer crimes

• Hacktivism -- United States

• Activism, Hacker
• Hacker activism

• Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (London and New York: Verso, c2014), by E. Gabriella Coleman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Hector Postigo (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy (2018), by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (HTML with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), ed. by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US (Bielefield: Transcript, c2019), ed. by Maik Fielitz and Nick Thurston (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age (London: A/E/T Press, c2018), by Rufus Pollock (PDF and Epub with commentary at openrevolution.net)
• Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Ralph Schroeder (HTML and PDF with commentart at UCL Press)
• Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (London and New York: Verso, c2014), by E. Gabriella Coleman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2022), by Asta Zelenkauskaite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Global Online Freedom Act of 2007 : report (to accompany H.R. 275) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2007), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Global internet freedom : corporate responsibility and the rule of law : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, May 20, 2008 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Global Internet freedom and the rule of law. Pt. II : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, March 2, 2010. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Visual propaganda and extremism in the online environment (Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2014., 2014), by Douglas C. Lovelace, Cori Elizabeth Dauber, Carol Winkler, Army War College (U.S.). Press, and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Promoting global Internet freedom : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, December 8, 2011 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by Global Health United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring (prepublication edition, c2013), by Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain (PDF at Michigan)

• Australian Politics in a Digital Age (c2013), by Peter John Chen (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Death of distance or tyranny of distance? : the internet, deterritorialisation, and the anti-globalisation movement in Australia (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2000), by Ann Capling, Kim Richard Nossal, and Australian National University. Dept. of International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• "Race to the Bottom": Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Rebecca MacKinnon (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Internet in China : a tool for freedom or suppression? : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, February 15, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by Global Human Rights United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa and United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yahoo! Inc.'s provision of false information to Congress : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, November 6, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by the Pacific United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Google predicament : transforming U.S. cyberspace policy to advance democracy, security, and trade : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, March 10, 2010. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People (2004), by Dan Gillmor (PDF files with commentary at oreilly.com)

• The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age (London: A/E/T Press, c2018), by Rufus Pollock (PDF and Epub with commentary at openrevolution.net)
• The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online (New York: Data and Society Research Institute, 2018), by Whitney Phillips (PDF with commentary at datasociety.net)
• Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Ralph Schroeder (HTML and PDF with commentart at UCL Press)
• Change: 19 Key Essays on How the Internet Is Changing Our Lives (Madrid: BBVA, c2013), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, David Hillel Gelernter, Juan Ignacio Vázquez, Michael A. Nielsen, Mikko Hypponen, Manuel Castells, Evgeny Morozov, Federico Casalegno, Neil Selwyn, Lucien Engelen, Zaryn Dentzel, Dan Schiller, Yochai Benkler, Thomas W. Malone, David Crystal, Paul DiMaggio, Peter Hirshberg, Patrik Wikström, and Edward Castronova (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.cmo)
• The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (Creative Commons-licensed PDF, c2008), by David Bollier (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Lori Kendall (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Net.Wars (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Wendy Grossman (multiple formats at NYU)
• The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building Technologies for Communities (second edition, 2014), by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad (illustrated HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)
• The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It (interactive electronic edition, 2008), by Jonathan Zittrain (HTML with commentary at Yale University Press)
• Internet Governance: Asia-Pacific Perspectives (2005), ed. by Daniel Butt (PDF at apdip.net)
• The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993), by Howard Rheingold (HTML at rheingold.com)
• Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television (Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, 2017), by Amanda D. Lotz (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• How the World Changed Social Media (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliana Spyer, S. Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013), ed. by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
• eGirls, eCitizens (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015), ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie M. Steeves (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (Situated Technologies pamphlet #7; New York: Architecture League of New York, 2010), by Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu (PDF with commentary at archleague.org)
• The YouTube Reader (Stockholm: National Library of Sweden, 2009), ed. by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (PDF in Sweden)
• Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Anna Everett (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Youth, Identity, and Digital Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by David Buckingham (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst (c1995), by Stephen L. Talbott (HTML with commentary at netfuture.com)
• The hyperlinked society : questioning connections in the digital age (University of Michigan Press :, 2008), by Lokman Tsui and Joseph Turow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring (prepublication edition, c2013), by Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain (PDF at Michigan)

• Social Media in Northern Chile: Posting the Extraordinary Ordinary (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Nell Haynes
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China (c2012), by Ying Jiang (PDF and Epub with commentary at Adelaide)

• Terms of Service: Understanding Our Role in the World of Big Data (Al Jazeera America, c2014), by Michael Keller and Josh Neufeld (multiple formats at aljazeera.com)

• The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico (1998), by David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla, Graham E. Fuller, and Melissa Fuller (PDF files at rand.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.