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

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Mauro
• Assisted by: Jenny Kidd (Editor), Anthony Mandal (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781350231023
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23102-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures; Bloomsbury Studies in Digital
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Digital lifestyle, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Computer security, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile, Media, Information & Communication Industries, COMPUTERS / Internet / Online Safety & Privacy, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / General, Control, privacy and safety in society, Literary studies: from c 2000