Members of the E-International Relations podcast team speak about what they have been reading recently as part of ‘The Laid-Back Book Club’.
Steven Feldstein explains the concept of digital repression, and its strategic use in domestic and global politics.
The expansion hypothesis is verified by the expansion of the Chinese surveillance technology. This threatens liberal democracy through the accumulation of illiberal acts.
The whole ecosystem is going to require new regulatory frameworks to combat extremist content online. Removal of content is not necessarily the best form of action.
Charlotte Epstein discusses the impact Foucault has had on her thinking, explains why discourse matters in the study of IR, and assesses the politics of surveillance.
With so little to go on, the media are left to construct their own version of events, filling in the silence left by the girls with a cacophony of possible explanations.
Surveillance can be justified. The challenge lies in justifying certain acts of surveillance, and in determining why it is that such acts strike us as eminently sensible.
Technological surveillance certainly receives the headlines, however, there’s nothing more effective and powerful than intelligence collection through a living, breathing human being.
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