The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780190057497 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 344 str.

Steven Feldstein

Recenzje

Digital technologies were once seen as a harbinger of liberalization and democratization. Thanks to 'big data,' A.I., machine learning, facial recognition, and other mass surveillance systems, they have now become an autocrat's best friend and a big business opportunity. With precision and clarity, Steven Feldstein documents the disturbing spread of the political economy of digital repression and offers pathways to help resist it. The Rise of Digital Repression is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on information controls.

O autorze

Steven Feldstein is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Democracy, Conflict and Governance Program. Previously, he was the holder of the Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs and an associate professor at Boise State University. He served in the Obama administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor with responsibility for Africa policy, international labor affairs, and international religious freedom, and as Director of Policy at the US Agency for International Development. He has also served as Counsel on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee under former chairmen Joe Biden and John Kerry. He received his B.A. from Princeton and his J.D. from Berkeley Law.