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`Who owns the information? The question is central to everything we do and is done in our name, in politics, economics and diplomacy. The perennial power struggle between the state and the individual has moved to cyberspace ... In her vivid portrayal of this continuing battle, Heather Brooke is more than an author. She is also an insurgent, best known for her indefatigable campaign to force parliament to publish details of MPs' expenses.' --Sunday Times Culture
`Each book makes for a demanding, illuminating read and together they build a 3D picture of digital-age ethics, the politics of freedom of speech and information and, consequently, of the state of contemporary freedoms per se.' --Independent on Sunday
`Brooke hasn't set out to write just another inside account of the Wikileaks saga: this is a mélange of anecdote, imagination and experience designed to open our eyes to the possibility of digital change ... feisty and vivid and honest' --Guardian
`A lively journey around some of the characters and debates that regularly make headlines. [Brooke] is especially well placed to pierce the veil - as a fearlessly independent investigative journalist who won't take no for an answer, she has an ability to gain access to nooks and crannies that many do not even imagine to exist ... Brooke has a burning commitment and an agenda but starry-eyed she is not ... [the book's] contribution is significant, and readably so ... We have been warned.' --Financial Times
`A vivid snapshot of the internet `information war' between the powerful and the people ... Heather Brooke is one of a rare breed of heroine hacks, the sort non-hacks like to imagine: Lois Lane, Woodward and Bernstein, John Simm in State of Play ... Hackers should be grateful to Brooke for her attempts to elevate them in the public mind ... Brooke is rightly confident in the significance of her subject ... THE REVOLUTION WILL BE DIGITISED is an early and indispensable report from the frontline.' --Independent
`Each book makes for a demanding, illuminating read and together they build a 3D picture of digital-age ethics, the politics of freedom of speech and information and, consequently, of the state of contemporary freedoms per se.' --Independent on Sunday
`Brooke hasn't set out to write just another inside account of the Wikileaks saga: this is a mélange of anecdote, imagination and experience designed to open our eyes to the possibility of digital change ... feisty and vivid and honest' --Guardian
`A lively journey around some of the characters and debates that regularly make headlines. [Brooke] is especially well placed to pierce the veil - as a fearlessly independent investigative journalist who won't take no for an answer, she has an ability to gain access to nooks and crannies that many do not even imagine to exist ... Brooke has a burning commitment and an agenda but starry-eyed she is not ... [the book's] contribution is significant, and readably so ... We have been warned.' --Financial Times
`A vivid snapshot of the internet `information war' between the powerful and the people ... Heather Brooke is one of a rare breed of heroine hacks, the sort non-hacks like to imagine: Lois Lane, Woodward and Bernstein, John Simm in State of Play ... Hackers should be grateful to Brooke for her attempts to elevate them in the public mind ... Brooke is rightly confident in the significance of her subject ... THE REVOLUTION WILL BE DIGITISED is an early and indispensable report from the frontline.' --Independent
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Timely and gripping Investigation of how the internet is transforming politics by award-winning journalist Heather Brooke.
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This review is from: The Revolution will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War (Paperback)
Full review at [...]Heather Brooke's latest book takes a long, hard, look at the battle for open information in the digital era, and offers a difficult critique of how governments might still just about be winning. The fascinating narrative of the Wikileaks Afghan war logs, Iraq war logs, and Cablegate data leaks, and the effect on all those involved, is threaded through the book. The vital point is this: the open nature of the internet, that you probably appreciate if you are reading this blog, can be used for good or evil. Governments can use technology to be more transparent, or they can use it to spy on, and suppress, their citizens. It might seem obvious, but it needs someone like Brooke to eloquently drive the point home. I found "The Revolution will be Digitised" utterly inspiring. It is an excellent expose of one of the key issues of the day, and essential 21st century reading.
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This review is from: The Revolution will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War (Paperback)
Heather Brooke was the investigative American journalist who forced Members of Parliament and those sitting in The House of Lords in the UK to divulge their expenses. She did this country a favour, forcing our law-makers to be honest or to leave Parliament, which many did at the last General Election. Several of them went to jail, and some of them languish there still. In this book about the use and abuse of the internet, Heather Brooke uses the topic of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Wikileaks to explore digital ethics, freedom of speech, abuse of power, differences in law between the USA and the UK, and journalistic ideals, in clear, understandable concepts. It is also an entertaining book since it is based on her personal experiences, one of which included a sexually ambiguous advance on her one night by Assange. I thoroughly enjoyed the book which I read in an evening. At 239 pages, it's a compact volume of learning and experience.
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Is it a Revolution? An Information War?,
By FRH "knarf" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Revolution will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War (Paperback)
I enjoyed reading this book. It's pleasing to read an account of someone's personal experience. I remember once being asked to 'depersonalise' my own work in the name of scientific objectivity (though the meaning of which was not adequately defined). I think the case of Julian Assange which Heather Brooke draws attention to is very important to understanding the current human condition - especially with regards to the emerging global financial oligarchy; the pernicious effects of which seem to be enveloping all of us. Freedom of information is, of course, a central issue within such a context, as is the restitution of democratic ideals - defined in terms of social justice and equality, not merely 'one-person-one-vote' (which is hopelessly inadequate).I don't particularly like the title of the book as I don't think it serves Heather's real intentions well. And I prefer receptive reasoning as opposed to rejective reasoning because it is much more effective at influencing people in the long term. In this sense, for me, the words 'Revolution' and 'War' are too strong. I would prefer to couch the so-called 'digital revolution' / 'information war' in evolutionary terms, for I believe it to be reflective of the natural human desire towards positive, liberative, collaborative endeavour. It is more appropriate in this sense to recognise that we are not just dealing with information per se, but more truly the rise of the Age of Communication in which a new Interactive Democracy 'I-Democracy' (no, I don't mean E-Democracy) can reassert the primacy of the human and its environment. This is the real transition which is taking place in our era. Heather Brooke has made a useful contribution in that she brings her personal account to a wider audience because the text (being non-academic) is light and readable. It seems that Julian Assange is not being treated fairly. The real problem for me lies at the heart of the global financial oligarchy. This is where our attention should be focused. I'd be pleased to collaborate with you on that one Heather!
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