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Hacking in the Humanities: Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital Future

Hacking in the Humanities: Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital Future

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures

Literary CriticismGeneral ComputersComputer Security

ISBN10: 1350231029
ISBN13: 9781350231023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jun 30 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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