Hacking in the Humanities

Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital Future

Aaron Mauro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23102-3 (ISBN)

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What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard. This book looks to speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the digital humanities to bring a human — and humanistic — perspective to the issue of cybersecurity. It argues that through these stories we are able to predict the future political, cultural, and social realities emerging from technological change.

Making the case for a security-minded humanities education, this book examines pressing issues of data security, privacy, social engineering and more, illustrating how the humanities offer the critical, technical, and ethical insights needed to oppose the normalization of surveillance, disinformation, and coercion.

Within this counter-cultural approach to technology, this book offers a model of activism to intervene and meaningfully resist government and corporate oversight online. In doing so, it argues for a wider notion of literacy, which includes the ability to write and fight the computer code that shapes our lives.

Aaron Mauro is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Brock University, Canada.

Preface
1. Human Exploits: An Introduction to Hacking and the Humanities
2. “Hack the Planet”: Pop Hackers and the Demands of a Real World Resistance
3. Academic Attack Surfaces: Culture Jamming the Future and XML Bombs
4. Supply Chain Attacks and Knowledge Networks: Network Sovereignty and the Interplanetary Internet
5.Cryptographic Agility and the Right to Privacy: Secret Writing and the Cypherpunks
6. Biohacking and Autonomous Androids: Human Evolution and Biometric Data
7. Gray Hat Humanities: Surveillance Capitalism, Object Oriented Ontology, and Design Fiction
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-23102-9 / 1350231029
ISBN-13	978-1-350-23102-3 / 9781350231023
Zustand	Neuware