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The Revolution will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War [Paperback]

Heather Brooke (Author)
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Publication Date: 18 Aug 2011

There is more information in the world than ever before - but who is in control?

At the centre is the Establishment: governments, corporations andpowerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than at any other time in history. Circling them is a new generation of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show.

In her gripping, revelatory new book, award-winning journalist and campaigner Heather Brooke takes us inside the Information War, from the hackerspaces of Boston and Berlin to the UK's journalism hub and Iceland's free speech revolution; from the headquarters of Google and Facebook to Collateral Murder, Cablegate and the murky world of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Along the way Brooke explores the most urgent questions of the digital age: where is the balance between freedom and security? In an online world, does privacy still exist? And will the internet empower individuals, or usher in a new age of censorship, surveillance and oppression?

Praise for The Silent State

'Passionate, eloquent and persuasive' Times Book of the Week

'Wonderful... Heather Brooke has changed British public culture

and earned an essential place in our national history' Peter Oborne

'***** If you care about our so-called democracy, you must read

this profoundly shocking book' Mail on Sunday

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: William Heinemann (18 Aug 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0434020907
  • ISBN-13: 978-0434020904
  • Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 2 x 21.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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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 )

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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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Review - The Revolution Will Be Digitised 27 Sep 2011
By Charlotte Hneyr
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Instructive, personal and illuminating 18 Dec 2011
By Mr. Stephen Greensted
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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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3.0 out of 5 stars Too much gossip 2 Dec 2012
By Metropolitan Critic
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Investigative journalist Heather Brooke is best known for her dogged campaign to obtain information on British MPs expenses. Her efforts were crowned with stunning success in May 2009 after one of the staff tasked with redacting the original invoices for publication supplied the entire database to the Daily Telegraph on a disc. The result, as you will undoubtedly know if you live in Britain, was the early retirement of a significant portion of our elected representatives from public life. In a rational world, Brooke would have a damehood for this alone.

Since then, she has written an excellent book on freedom of information, The Silent State (2010), detailing how data which has been collected using public money is regularly withheld from the public. For anyone who has tried to use the Freedom of Information act, the book will ring horribly true.

Her latest, The Revolution Will be Digitised, is an account of the Wikileaks saga, interspersed with reflections on the consequences of electronic communication networks for law, journalism, surveillance, national security, privacy and anonymity.

For me, it was less convincing than The Silent State. Part of the problem is one of technique. Some of the chapters are written in 'creative nonfiction' style, 'reconstructing' scenes using the procedures of fiction. This is always a rather dubious approach.

She also has a weakness for windy philosophising about free speech. The questions she raises about the political and social consequences of an online world are hugely important, but the benefits and costs of the rise of the internet are examined in a very cursory way.

As to Wikileaks, she mentions that one of the tactics the US government deployed was to attempt to shift the focus from the content of the leaked material to the personality of Julian Assange. In this context, it seems odd that Brooke should also focus so strongly on his personality. We hear about his clothes and appearance, and all manner of personal material about his relationship with Brooke and Guardian journalists (gossip you could say) and relatively little about the political consequences of the leak. It is strange that she should tell us so much about the messenger and so little about the message.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Terrifying, but there is a glimmer of hope
Slightly terrifying read when you realise how pervasive the surveillance society now is, but there is some hope that the way Iceland is dealing with freedom of speech can be... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Half Man, Half Book
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
After the Wikileaks dramas of 2010, the Surveillance State is going global. It's up to each of us to fight for our rights and this book is an essential guide. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Silverdale
3.0 out of 5 stars Is it a Revolution? An Information War?
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... Read more
Published 18 months ago by FRH
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye opener
If you would like to know about the way the internet is being regulated in an entertaining fashion, then this is the ideal book. Everyone online should read this.
Published 19 months ago by GSARider
4.0 out of 5 stars It's worth your time to read this book
Most people who are already long term digital natives will recognize many of the events and places that Heather writes about in this book. Read more
Published 20 months ago by R. Williams
4.0 out of 5 stars Digital Revolution
As an American who not only follows American politics and other related items, I also take an interest in politics and issues in other countries. Read more
Published 20 months ago by TigheJaffe
5.0 out of 5 stars Vital document on the state of the information war
Do you remember when the first major salvos of the information war were documented in Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown? Read more
Published 20 months ago by geekyoto
1.0 out of 5 stars Tabloid "journalism"
This book is Brooke trying to sell already known facts and phenomena as her discoveries. The rest is pure vile backstabbing gossip by a self declared FOI fighter+journalist who saw... Read more
Published 21 months ago by susi1
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - read it
Not a complete review as I am only on Ch5 - will update as soon as I have finished it but already I am very impressed. Read more
Published 21 months ago by johnthefatman
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