[Air-L] Book on activist DDoS actions launching this week!

[Molly Sauter]

My new book on the activist use of distributed denial of service actions is
launching this week.  Check it out on Amazon
<http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Swarm-Hacktivism-Disobedience/dp/1623564565#>
or
contact Bloomsbury for an examination copy
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-coming-swarm-9781623564568/>. And if
you'll be in New York, Boston, Toronto, or Montreal in the next six weeks,
come to one of the awesome book events
<http://oddletters.com/2014/10/16/the-coming-swarm-book-tour/> we have
scheduled.

In *The Coming Swarm*, Molly Sauter examines the history, development,
theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic
of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communication, self
expression, and interpersonal organizing. When there is a message to
convey, words to get out, or people to unify, many will turn to the
internet as a theater for that activity. As familiar and widely accepted
activist tools-petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in
campaigns and others-find equivalent practices in the online space, is
there also room for the tactics of disruption and civil disobedience that
are equally familiar from the realm of street marches, occupations, and
sit-ins? With a historically grounded analysis, and a focus on early
deployments of activist DDOS as well as modern instances to trace its
development over time, *The Coming Swarm* uses activist DDOS actions as the
foundation of a larger analysis of the practice of disruptive civil
disobedience on the internet.

-- 
oddletters
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author of *The Coming Swarm: DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil
Disobedience on the Internet
<http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Swarm-Hacktivism-Disobedience/dp/1623564565#>*