Hackers, monopolies and panoptic institutions: elements for a theory of digital citizenship

Abstract

The expansion of communication mediated by transnational computer networks raises problems of great complexity to consolidate citizenship. The capacity of information and communication technologies reconfiguring the social practices and begetting changing processes in the worldwide scenario, incorporating new rights. Confrontation between the perspectives of a hacker culture on the one hand, and the panoptic and profitable surveillance of States and algorithm monopolies on the other.