Index

Contents

Series Preface	                                                 VI
Acknowledgements	                                        VII

Introduction: Information as a Politics	                          1

Part 1 Theory of Information Power

1   Recursion	                                                 29
2   Technologies’ Embrace	                                 45
3   Network and Protocol Theory: Dis/Organising Information
    Power	                                                 64

Part 2 Platforms

4   Clouds	                                                 83
5   Securitisation of the Internet                               98
6   Social Media Networks	                                120

Part 3 Battlegrounds

7   Battlegrounds and the iPad	                                143
8   Death and Gaming	                                        160
9   Hacktivism: Operation Tunisia, Modular Tactics and
    Information Activism	                                176

Conclusion: Information Exploitation and Information Liberation 192

Bibliography	                                                218
Index                                                           230