Case studies of individuals harmed by twitter mobs, media attacks and cyber harassment. Ronson warns the public to consider the “level of mercilessness” with which it feels comfortable before joining in public shaming.
Short essays by Ryan Calo, Gary Marx, Helen Nissenbaum, Frank Pasquale, Deborah Peel, Danielle Citron, Michael Froomkin, and Pamela Samuelson, among others.
From Kirkus Reviews: “A provocative excursion to the darker side of human nature set free by the anonymous and unregulated boundaries of cyberspace.” From B&N Review: “It is Bartlett’s plentiful and fascinating interviews with the denizens of the dark net that make his book so compelling… Quite worrying, a bit disgusting, highly voyeuristic, and occasionally…
From Stiennon’s synopsis of his book: “There Will Be Cyberwar traces the origins of network-centric warfighting from the Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1995-96 to the creation of US Cyber Command. It raises the specter of future wars–not too distant–where adversaries take advantage of vulnerabilities in sensors, weapons, and command and control, to dominate the battle…
Account of the popular 1825 play Paul Pry “resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres.”
