[infowar.de] Hacktivists or Cyberterrorists? The Changing Media Discourse on Hacking by Sandor Vegh

[Olivier Minkwitz <minkwitz -! - hsfk - de>]

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Hacktivists or Cyberterrorists? The Changing Media Discourse on Hacking
by Sandor Vegh
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_10/vegh/index.html

First Monday
Volume 7, Number 10 - October 7th 2002

This paper scrutinizes the language of government reports and news media
sources to shed light on their role in forming a negative image of
politically
motivated hacking in general, and online political activism, in
particular. It is argued that the mass media's portrayal of hacking
conveniently fits the elite's
strategy to form a popular consensus in a way that supports the elite's
crusade under different pretexts to eradicate hacking, an activity that
may
potentially threaten the dominant order.

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Olivier Minkwitz___________________________________________
Dipl. Pol.
HSFK Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
PRIF Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Leimenrode 29 60322 Frankfurt a/M Germany
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