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Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Philip N. Howard

New Haven; London: Yale University Press (2020), xviii, 221 pp.

"Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our ... more

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Mapping Responses to Social Media Threats

Lisa Schirch

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 17 pp.

"This report identifies social media threats - surveillance, addiction, disinformation, polarisation, dangerous speech - on social cohesion, human rights, violence and democracy and then identifies creative options for addressing those threats through: building a better bridge between offline dialog ... more

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The Online Public Sphere in the Gulf: Contestation, Creativity, and Change

Sahar Khamis

Review of Middle East Studies, volume 53, issue 2 (2019), pp. 190-199

"This introductory essay sets the stage for this special issue, which explores how online media has changed the Arabian Gulf region's politics, economies, and social norms. It provides an overview of the most important themes, arguments, and findings tackled in the four essays in this issue, as well ... more

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Digital Justice Manifesto: A Call to Own Our Digital Future

Just Net Coalition (2019), 16 pp.

"Key principles: 1. Data subjects must own their data – individually and collectively. 2. Our data requires protection from abuse. 3. We need the tools to control our data. 4. Data commons need appropriate governance frameworks. 5. Data protection, sharing and use require new institutions. 6. Data ... more

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Ciudadanos reemplazados por algoritmos

Néstor García Canclini

Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press; Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (CALAS) (2019), 174 pp.

"Nuestras opiniones y comportamientos, capturados por algoritmos, quedan subordinados a corporaciones globalizadas. El espacio público se vuelve opaco y lejano. La desciudadanización se radicaliza, mientras algunos sectores se reinventan y ganan batallas parciales. Pero los usos neoliberales de la ... more

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China’s Digital Silk Road: Strategic Technological Competition and Exporting Political Illiberalism

Clayton Cheney

Pacific Forum (2019), iv, 23 pp.

"The Digital Silk Road is the component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative that aims to establish China as the global technological superpower. While the Belt and Road Initiative is generally understood to be a foreign policy initiative, it is important to view the Digital Silk Road as both a for ... eign and domestically focused aspect of the initiative. The first step to analyzing this component of the Belt and Road Initiative is to create a conceptual roadmap to understand the components of the Digital Silk Road. This paper argues that it comprises four interrelated, technologically focused initiatives. First, China is investing abroad in digital infrastructure, including next generation cellular networks, fiberoptic cables and data centers. Second, it contains a domestic focus on developing advanced technologies that will be essential to global economic and military power. These advanced technologies include satellite navigation systems, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Third, because China recognizes the importance of economic interdependence to international influence, the Digital Silk Road promotes e-commerce through digital free trade zones. Last, digital diplomacy and governance, including through multilateral institutions, are key to China creating its ideal international digital environment. After outlining a broad conceptual map of the Digital Silk Road, this paper focuses on how China’s investment in digital infrastructure and the strategic technological competition between China and the United States will shape the international orders in the Asia-Pacific region and globally. It argues that China perceives technological advancement as the sphere in which it can most adequately challenge the United States’ global power without creating direct confrontation, including possible military confrontation. Second, the United States seeks to constrain the Digital Silk Road and China’s technological ascendancy by presenting Chinese technology corporations as posing an unacceptable risk to international security. Third, China does not want to replace the current international order that has persisted since the end of the Second World War. Rather, it would like to maintain the liberal economic order that has permitted its economic rise and export its form of digital authoritarianism to create an illiberal political international order. Finally, through investing in data centers and pursuing data localization policies, China aims to achieve strategic geopolitical objectives by projecting sharp power abroad, which will be facilitated by big data." (Executive Summary) more

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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

Jamie Susskind

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2018), xiv, 516 pp.

"Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and ... more

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Angriff der Algorithmen: Wie sie Wahlen manipulieren, Berufschancen zerstören und unsere Gesundheit gefährden

Cathy O'Neil

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 345 pp.

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Focus: New Media

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 187-318

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Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: A critical analysis

Sahar Khamis, Katherine Vaughn

In: Online Journalism in Africa

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Jason Whittaker (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), 16 pp.

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Les réseaux sociaux sur Internet à l'heure des transitions démocratiques

Sihem Najar (dir.)

Tunis; Paris: Institut de la Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC); Karthala (2013), 489 pp.

"Les pays en quête de démocratie ont traversé de grands bouleversements. C’est ce dont témoignent les mouvements sociaux sur Internet, acteur incontournable des soulèvements populaires. Leurs contours, les lieux où ils évoluent ainsi que les volontés qui s’y expriment constituent un terr ... more

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From connectivity to service delivery: Case studies in e-governance

Raul Zambrano, Kristine Ruhiya Seward (eds.)

New York: UNDP (2013), 63 pp.

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Social Media and Politics: Online Social Networking and Political Communication in Asia

Philip Behnke (ed.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2010), 140 pp.

"This is a compilation of 13 essays and studies that show the role social networking is playing in political communication in Asia. Each of the 13 chapters describes how various online social communities and networks such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs, are being used as tools in general political c ... more

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Desarrollo humano en Chile: Las nuevas tecnologías: ¿un salto al futuro?

Eugenio Ortega R., Pedro Güell V. (eds.)

Santiago de Chile: Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) (2006), 270 pp.

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Incommunicado Reader

Geert Lovink, Soenk Zehle (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2005), 192 pp.

"Aiming to bring some of the network-cultural forms of collaboration into ICT debates dominated by standard policy and research procedure, the Incommunicado project does not offer a univocal master-narrative of what’s wrong with the world of ICT, or of how it should be. Members of the Incommunicad ... more

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Democracy and New Media

Henry Jenkins, David Thorburn (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2003), x, 385 pp.

"The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What happens, for example, when we increase access to information ... more

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Internet und Politik in Lateinamerika: Costa Rica

Bert Hoffmann

Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert (2002), 82 pp.

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Internet und Politik in Lateinamerika: Einleitung und vergleichende Betrachtung

Roman Herzog, Bert Hoffmann, Markus Schulz

Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert (2002), 86 pp.