“A must read for those seeking to understand the impact of digital culture and their attendant communication technologies on our quest for liberty and equality.”
— Hector Postigo, Temple University
“A determined philosophical inquiry into the nature of information politics, from the abstraction of the cloud to the battlegrounds of hactivists, to identify the forms of exploitation and liberation endemic to the recursive movement of information. This book offers rich philosophical grounding for current and future studies of new media.”
— Tarleton Gillespie, Cornell University
“Tim Jordan has yet again produced a compelling and incisive account of fundamental developments in our increasingly digital world. His sophisticated theoretical analysis is clearly articulated and is based on a thorough grasp of both the technical and the social. He brilliantly avoids both cultural pessimism and techno-utopianism in his presentation of ‘political antagonisms.’”
— Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University
“This is a valuable, sober analysis of the dark edge of the information cloud. With an admirable balance of hacktivist optimism (the liberation in the subtitle) and candid dismay (exploitation), Jordan (digital and media studies, Univ. of Sussex, UK) doggedly pursues a sound original thesis regarding the politics of information (including a solid section of its recursive aspect with a great aside on Chomsky)....Recommended.”
— CHOICE
"In an era where we are questioning what our data is being used for, Tim Jordan’s book cannot feel anymore timely to read. While Jordan’s book, Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society, was published in 2015, prior to the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, it feels a very current read, exploring exactly what can happen to the data that we provide to online platforms. In an era where it is not uncommon to hear of a hacking scandal...it is clear that we are living in a different age: an age where everything and anything that is put online can be compromised. Jordan explores this comprehensively throughout his book, examining social media platforms, clouds and even looking at how the government use our data....Jordan’s book is a compelling read."
— Information, Communication & Society