DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP OR DIGITAL AUTHORITARIANISM?

James S. Pearson, Defining Digital Authoritarianism - PhilArchive

It is becoming increasingly common for authoritarian regimes to leverage digital technologies to surveil, repress and manipulate their ...

Digital Authoritarianism and Implications for US National Security

First, digital authoritarianism allows authoritarian regimes to consolidate power—many of which already pose national security risks to the US, ...

Digital Authoritarianism and Nonviolent Action: Challenging the ...

Nonviolent action campaigns are one of the most common ways citizens seek to peacefully change nonresponsive political systems.

Virtual Issue: Authoritarianism in the Digital Age - Oxford Academic

This virtual issue serves as an introduction to authoritarianism in the digital age by highlighting relevant scholarship published in Communication Theory.

A Growing Threat” at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Specifically, the degree to which new technologies, institutional, legal, and organizational approaches to digital repression being deployed by ...

Digital Authoritarianism, China and COVID - Lowy Institute

The coronavirus has showcased China's cyber-powered social control capabilities, with implications for human rights worldwide.

A new era of digital citizenship in Africa

In each chapter authors show how positive examples of digital citizenship are limited and constrained by new forms of digital authoritarianism: ...

Internet Freedom: Fighting Back Against Digital Authoritarianism

The internet has become a space where digital giants defend shareholder interests, authoritarian governments squash human rights, and private companies spy on ...

The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism: Fake news, data collection and ...

Governments around the world are tightening control over citizens' data and using claims of “fake news” to suppress dissent, eroding trust in the internet as ...

The Great Online Convergence: Digital Authoritarianism Comes to ...

A convergence in how democratic and autocratic governments are using surveillance and disinformation to shape political life.

The Dangers of the Global Spread of China's Digital Authoritarianism

China's model of digital authoritarianism is spreading abroad, in part due to active promotion by the Chinese Communist Party. At least 80 ...

Mechanisms of Digital Authoritarianism: The Case of Bangladesh

This paper draws on qualitative evidence from Bangladesh, where the government has undertaken all three measures of digital authoritarianism.

The Long View of Digital Authoritarianism - New America

Yet digital authoritarianism has existed for decades—not in the physical space that AI is emerging in now, but online, through the internet; ...

Decoding Digital Authoritarianism - Berggruen Institute

Decoding Digital Authoritarianism. Digital technologies' potential to advance societal wellbeing is well known. How these technologies can be used to constrict ...

Digital authoritarianism and the threat to global democracy

Autocrats around the world are using relatively cheap digital technologies to surveil their populations. Countries invest in these ...

Digital Authoritarianism and the Future of Human Rights

We model the interaction between an authoritarian government and an opposition group. The model accounts for the dual effects of digital ...

The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism - YouTube

Digital tools give authoritarian governments and likeminded leaders new opportunities to repress and disrupt—this is known as digital ...

Chinese Digital Authoritarianism and Its Global Impact

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been building digital authoritarianism in China through censorship, propaganda and AI-driven population-wide surveillance.

Fight Digital Authoritarianism by Giving People the Tools to Counter It

Digital authoritarianism is the use of digital information technology by authoritarian regimes to surveil, repress, and manipulate domestic and foreign ...

How digital authoritarianism has permeated the Middle East

Marc Owen Jones explains how governments and non-state actors use social media and digital technology to deceive and control citizens.