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 * Orientating questions**

· Think about the kinds of activity that might be described as hacktivism. Is hacktivism a crime? · What makes hacktivism unique from ‘off-line’ forms of political activism? · What kinds of protest that can only take place on the Internet? Does this automatically mean the web has increased democracy? · What effect might surveillance on the web have on the future of political protest?

//**Work in two groups – one group will be given a corporate view of hacktivism and responses to this phenomena, the other will have an article written from an activist/social protestors viewpoint.**//

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 * G roup 1: How Hacktivism Affects Us All**
 * Mandy / Reuben **

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 * Group 2: What is Hacktivism?**
 * Javier / Paul **

Work through the documents you have been given and develop a list of counter arguments /objections/ problems with the viewpoint presented. At the end of the session present your outputs to the other group **and finally swap the original resources** so that you can consolidate your learning across the three preceding blocks of activity (political participation, cybercrime and hacktivism).

Readings
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 * Jordan, T. and Taylor, P. (2004) Hacktivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with acause? London: Routledge. **REUBEN**
 * Manion, M. And Goodrum, A. (2000) 'Terrorism or Civil Disobedience:Towards a Hacktivist Ethic' Computers and Society, 30 (2), 14-19.** PAUL **
 * Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N., (2011) 'E-Resistance and Technological In/Security in Everyday Life' The British Journal of Criminology. Advanced Access Available at: http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/08/19/bjc.azr059.abstract . **MANDY**
 * Taylor, P. A. (2001) 'Hacktivism: in search of lost ethics?' in D. S. Wall (ed.), Crime and the Internet, London: Routledge, pp. 59-73 **JAVIER**
 * Taylor, P. A. (2005) 'From Hackers to Hacktivists: speed bumps on the global superhighway?' New Media and Society, Vol. 7, No.5, 625-646 ** REUBEN **
 * Wall, D. (2010) 'Criminalising cyberspace: the rise of the Internet as a 'crime problem'' in Y. Jewkes and M. Yar (eds) The Handbook of Internet Crime, Cullompton, Devon : Willan, pp. 88-103.** PAUL **
 * Yar, M. (2006) Cybercrime and Society, London: Sage. ** MANDY **