{"id":100,"date":"2012-11-09T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ajepsen\/?p=100"},"modified":"2012-11-09T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:18:17","slug":"lil-bro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ajepsen\/2012\/11\/09\/lil-bro\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Bro"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to his own biography<\/a>, Cory Doctorow is a<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cscience fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing<\/a> and the author of young adult novels like PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Doctorow feels it is important to make his books available for free\u2026<\/p>\n

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  1. makes it easy for people who love them to help other people love them<\/li>\n
  2. We are in the 21st<\/sup> century & art is made with the intention of it being copied<\/li>\n
  3. Copying stuff is natural, & the way we learn.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Little Brother was Cory\u2019s first young adult novel in 2008 that tells the story of a group of<\/p>\n

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    Cory Doctorow Shadow Photo. Source: Neil Perkin<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

    San Francisco hacker kids who use technology to take on the Department of Homeland Security after being accused of having involvement with a terrorist attack on the Bay Bridge and BART.\u00a0 Throughout this story the group of four friends face issues such as invasion of privacy and constitutional rights, while learning to stay loyal and standing up for what they believe in.<\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u201cThis book is meant to be part of the conversation about what an information society means: does it mean total control, or unheard\u00ad of liberty? It’s not just a noun, it’s a verb, it’s something you do. You can use the ideas to spark important discussions with your friends and family. You can use those ideas to defeat censorship and get onto the free Internet, even if your government, employer or school doesn’t want you to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    This post will only address the first half of the novel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    It is apparent that Little Brother is a novel of examples of how people are photographed, logged, tracked on a daily basis.\u00a0 Doctorow mentions that in his afterword there are resources for ways to increase your online freedom.<\/p>\n

    \u201cLittle Brother is a scarily realistic adventure about how homeland security technology could be abused to wrongfully imprison innocent Americans. A teenage hacker\u00adturned\u00adhero pits himself against the government to fight for his basic freedoms. This book is action\u00adpacked with tales of courage, technology, and demonstrations of digital disobedience as the technophile’s civil protest.”<\/p>\n

    \u00ad Bunnie Huang, author of HACKING THE XBOX<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Examples from Little Brother<\/em>:<\/p>\n

    BART<\/strong> pass was telling government officials where he was going and when.\u00a0 It allowed the government to unknowingly spy on Marcus.<\/p>\n

    Gait<\/strong>: a system their school has to distinguish who is who, where they are going and when.\u00a0 The system determines students\u2019 inch-by-inch walk, personalizing it to every student.<\/p>\n

    Library Book Tracker<\/strong>:\u00a0 tells you who is carrying which book and where they go with that book.<\/p>\n

    FasTrak<\/strong>: an electronic system that allows people to pay tolls on bridges without stopping.\u00a0 People started to notice after paying attention that electronics like these don\u2019t have off-switches.<\/p>\n

    As a story, I am finding that Little Brother is quite intriguing.\u00a0 Seeing as I have only read chapters 1-10, I look forward to reading more.\u00a0 This novel touches on a variety of themes, some more serious than others.\u00a0 I feel that Doctorow did a good job writing on the touchy subjects, seeing as this is a young adult novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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