Challenging Information Control with Communication Technologies in Syria
The application of communication technologies enables Syrian citizen journalists to provide valuable coverage of the conflict’s ongoing atrocities.
Outsourcing Death, Sacrifice and Remembrance: The Socio-Political Effects of Remote Warfare
Remote warfare removes war from certain privileged spaces and times, even at the price of maintaining a limitless condition of war elsewhere.
Death by Data: Drones, Kill Lists and Algorithms
Legal questions surrounding the use of metadata in targeting means that an adequate, independent post-strike investigation is the bare minimum of what ‘feasible’ precautions should include.
Colonial Politics of Digital Security Interfaces
When juxtaposing quantified data, digital territories, data visualization and security they end up reifying and perpetuating colonial practices and imaginaries.
Review – Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
Susskind’s account is compelling in terms of its capacity to characterise the coming of the digital lifeworld and to suggest how we can reinvent politics within it.
Making Science and Technology Work for All
If we are unable to spread the benefits of technology-driven growth among people and empower them in the development process, there will be growth without development.
Interview – David Rothkopf
David Rothkopf elaborates on new journalism and discusses how fear has pervaded American politics since 9/11, the Obama Doctrine, and the ascendancy of Donald Trump.
Technological Ambivalence and International Relations
Technology is linked to many key phenomena of international relations. Yet it has only recently been effectively incorporated into the study of IR.
Knowledge, Technology, and the Pragmatic Dimensions of Self-Determination
Indigenous uses of ICTs are about connecting to homelands, strengthening ways of knowing, disseminating ideas about what it takes to survive, resist, and transform.
