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Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in search of techno-Utopia Kindle Edition

by Becky Hogge (Author), Christopher Scally (Illustrator), Damien Morris (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Barefoot into Cyberspace is an inside account of radical hacker culture and the forces that shape it, told in the year WikiLeaks took subversive geek politics into the mainstream. Including some of the earliest on-record material with Julian Assange you are likely to read, Barefoot Into Cyberspace is the ultimate guided tour of the hopes and ideals that are increasingly shaping world events.

Beginning at the Chaos Communications Congress of December 2009, where WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg first presented their world-changing plans to a select audience of the planet’s most skilful and motivated hackers, Barefoot Into Cyberspace interweaves an insider’s take on the drama that ensued with a thoughtful mix of personal reflections and conversations with key figures in the community aimed at testing the hopes and dreams of the early internet pioneers against the realities of the web today.

Will the internet make us more free? Or will the flood of information that courses across its networks only serve to enslave us to powerful interests that are emerging online? How will the institutions of the old world – politics, the media, corporations – affect the hackers’ dream for a new world populated not by passive consumers but by active participants? And can we ever live up to their vision of technology’s, and its users’, potential?
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    18 July 2011
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005DF6LWI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Barefoot Publishing Limited (18 July 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2653 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
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  • Gerald Kelly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
    Reviewed in the United States on 4 December 2011
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    I bought this book because I heard Becky interviewed on the Ubuntu podcast. It's an excellent read. It really opened my eyes to a few things. 20 years ago the internet was a wild west where everything was possible, people were starting businesses, people were expressing themselves freely. Today our web experiences are dominated and controlled by a handful of (American) companies: Facebook (controlling our social interactions), Google (controlling what we find, and don't find when we search online), Amazon (dominating online retailing), Apple (control freaks) (sorry Microsoft, you don't even make it on to the bad-list!)

    Becky talks to a lot of people who are trying to keep the idealism alive and ensure that these companies don't accumulate even more power.

    Overall an excellent introduction to the issue of freedom online.
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  • mirasreviews
    3.0 out of 5 stars One Activist’s Encounters with the Digital Counterculture.
    Reviewed in the United States on 28 October 2017
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    In 2009, British technology journalist Becky Hogge set out to record for posterity figures who “played key roles in the digital counterculture”. She thought it would be a eulogy; she thought that culture was going that way of the generation of hippies that she idolizes. The avalanche of leaks unleashed by WikiLeaks in 2010 led Hogge to reconsider her views –and probably to write a more upbeat book. “Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of a techno-Utopia” is a personal chronicle more than a record, anyhow: The journey of one information activist in 2 critical years of the nascent digital age, in search of the “new radicals” –and of a new understanding of the old ones.

    Her journey begins at the 26th annual Chaos Communication Congress in 2009, where she speaks to Rop Gonggrijp, Julian Assange, Daniel Schmitt (now Domscheit-Berg), and learns, basically, what hackers are up to these days. Then she tells, in brief, “the story of how a bunch of sixties hippies got tired of tripping and uploaded themselves to a new electronic frontier”, which she learns, in part, from Stewart Brand, producer of the iconic “Whole Earth Catalog” in 1968 and of the United States’ first Hacker Con in 1984. Sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow talks about copyright in the digital age, and Phil Booth of No2ID about fighting the Digital Economy Bill in the UK.

    Hogge was a wide-eyed optimist in thinking that the decentralized nature of the web would lead to more and better distribution of information than relying on media outlets. She was in good company, I suppose, and she shares her conversation with Ethan Zuckerman of Open Net Initiative on why the web is consolidating. Radical decentralization is not practical for the average user. But this sort of thing happens with every new communications technology, which Hogge doesn’t mention. This about brings her up to the publication of the Iraq War Logs by WikiLeaks, with which she had a brief relationship, followed by the “Cablegate” release and a media frenzy.

    “Barefoot into Cyberspace” is mildly analytical but not rigorous or comprehensive. It is one person’s contact with digital revolutionaries of various stripes. And it’s a personal story of Becky Hogge’s evolving views. Hogge is a leftist of the anti-globalization school, and she has an annoying habit of interpreting other people’s statements to have some anti-capitalist or anti-corporate implications that they very probably did not intend. She’s also strangely surprised, more than once, that digital revolutionaries don’t all dress like bums. There is a certain naiveté here, which is the book’s weakness. It’s strength is in introducing the reader to a variety of topics and ideas.

    This book was self-published, but it has been professionally edited and nicely formatted, so don’t be put off by that. There is a glossary of terms and list of references at the back. In the Kindle edition, the References are clickable and include articles and videos that Hogge referred to in the text. Also, the Table of Contents is at the back in the Kindle edition, so use the dropdown if you are looking for it. For a full transcript of the Julian Assange interview, see the author’s web site. It’s funny that she talks about the Baby Boomers and her own generation, the Millennials, and ignores GenX counterculture, since the big personalities that she interviews are GenXers.
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