"...The main research field of this book is Italy, since it is here that networking practices have determined the construction of a network of projects unparalleled in any other country. A scene with a strong identity and with its own artistic, technological and political feeling has been formed in Italy. The forms of artistic activism (artivism) and technological activism (hacktivism) are tightly interconnected in an extensive network diffused throughout the nation. In Italy, the idea of cyberpunk and hacking has taken on a very particular typology, tightly connected with the history of the underground digital network and the radical political movement, something that has not happened in most other countries..."