Review
`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
Book Description
Timely and gripping Investigation of how the internet is transforming politics by award-winning journalist Heather Brooke.
