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Repression becomes digital – 2. Global Trends


Repression becomes digital – 2. Global Trends - International IDEA

In recent years, democracies and autocracies alike have seen a rise in digital repression through Internet shutdowns, digital censorship, the use of spyware, ...

Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World - DNI.gov

with digital surveillance, will become less com- mon while new crimes, and ... vent digital repression and mobilize dissent. In addition to repression ...

Session 3: 3.4.2 Digital repression | OpenLearn - The Open University

Feldstein (2021) discusses the rise of 'digital repression' by authoritarian governments in some countries: the use of technology to surveil, coerce or ...

Digital tech aids political repression, warns world order winner

Feldstein examined how governments in China, Thailand, Ethiopia and the Philippines have used a wide range of digital tools such as internet ...

) Digital Repression Growing Globally, Threatening Freedoms

platforms with global ... Mitigating against the growth of digital repression probably would require the establishment of unified international ...

The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence | Freedom House

AI can serve as an amplifier of digital repression, making censorship, surveillance, and the creation and spread of disinformation easier, faster, cheaper, and ...

“We Will Find You”: A Global Look at How Governments Repress ...

While the term “transnational repression” has at times become shorthand for naming authoritarian governments as perpetrators of rights ...

The digital repression of social movements, protest, and activism

The rise of digital and social media has brought substantial increases in attention to the repression of digital activists and movements.

The Rise of Digital Repression - YouTube

This week, Aaron spoke with Steven Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about his new book, ...

2 Motivations and Incentives for Digital Repression - Oxford Academic

AbstractThis chapter defines digital repression and describes five principal techniques: surveillance, censorship, social manipulation and disinformation,

The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule | Freedom House

In countries with long-established democracies, internal forces have exploited the shortcomings in their systems, distorting national politics to promote hatred ...

When Do Authoritarian Regimes Use Digital Technologies for ...

The paper uses Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to 83 non-democratic regimes and leverages the 2021 digital repression dataset to answer ...

How to navigate an era of disruption, disinformation, and division

The boom in synthetic content that we've seen in 2023 will continue, and a wide set of actors will likely capitalize on this trend, with the ...

The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping ...

Many of these trends are going global. This has major implications for democratic governments and civil society activists around the world. The book also ...

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

The spread of China's model of digital repression intersects with a troubling global rise in authoritarianism. ... become more engaged in shaping ...

Digital Authoritarianism: How Digital Technologies Can Empower ...

2022 marked the 16th consecutive year of global democratic decline. While by far not the only factor contributing to this trend, it is ...

New Digital Dilemmas: Resisting Autocrats, Navigating Geopolitics ...

The Digital Democracy Network's contributors offer global perspectives on digital repression trends, the role of tech platforms, digital sovereignty,

Digital repression of protest movements

It is now common knowledge that whenever protest movements could make political gains through digital media and technologies, the regimes these very ...

The Invisible Hand of Artificial Intelligence in Transnational ...

Digital transnational repression includes digital surveillance, deployment of spyware, phishing, and hacking attacks, doxxing, online harassment, and ...

A decade of digital repression and resistance in Southeast Asia

From Myanmar and Thailand to Taiwan and Hong Kong, this movement generated trends, memes, and political actions that crossed borders and ...