Hacktivism: assessing the damage

From hackers to hacktivists: speed bumps on the global superhighway?

This article traces the emergence of the new social movement of hacktivism from hacking and questions its potential as a source of technologically-mediated radical political action. It assesses hacktivism in the light of critical theories of technology that question the feasibility of reengineering technical systems to more humane ends. The predecessor of hacktivism, hacking, is shown to contai...

This editorial appeared in Volume 12 ( 1 ) of The Semiotic Review of Books . Editorial : Hacktivism

The Body Hacktivism Movement: A Talk About the Body

This paper talks about the body in a movement of extreme body modification called Body Hacktivism. The aspiration of this movement is to unite hacking, body modification and activism. The Body Hacktivism is a current whose enthusiasts are found in different places in Europe, the United States, and South-America, and are connected through a network. Alongside the fieldwork, it is noticeable that...

Editorial: introduction to hacking and hacktivism

The activity of hacking constitutes one of the more contested and misunderstood aspects of network culture. Initially the word denoted a kind of obsessive commitment to creative and innovative computer programming, especially the re-engineering of systems that pushed the relatively new technology of the computer in interesting directions which were oftentimes not anticipated or recognized by th...

Digital Immolation - New Directions for Online Protest

The current literature and experience of online activism assumes two basic uses of the Internet for social movements: straightforward extensions of offline organising and fund-raising using online media to improve efficiency and reach, or “hacktivism” using technical knowledge to illegally deface or disrupt access to online resources. We propose a third model which is non-violent yet proves com...