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Week 2 - Politics in the Social Media Age
Unpack the different components of the internet, and understand power dynamics in or through the internet to establish foundational knowledge regarding politics and the internet
7  cards
Week 3 - Right to Privacy
What is the ipc 1,
First definition of privacy 2,
Second definition of privacy 3
9  cards
Week 4 - Right to Free Expression
Why does freedom of speech matter 1,
What are the threats to freedom o...,
What role does social media play ...
6  cards
Week 5 - Space, Surveillance and Democracy
How has satellites developed over...,
How and why is there power compet...,
How does cyberspace and outer spa...
5  cards
READING - Week 2 - We Need to Rewild the Internet
What is the name author and publi...,
What does it mean to rewild the i...,
What is the process of rewilding 3
6  cards
READING - Week 2 - The Consequences of the Internet for Politics
What is the name author and publi...,
How can the internet help democra...,
How can the internet hurt democra...
6  cards
READING - Week 3 - Mass Surveillance is Bad News for Privacy - and Democracy
What is the name author and publi...,
What is the right to privacy 2,
Why is privacy essential to democ...
3  cards
READING - Week 3 - The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
What is the name author and publi...,
What two elements helped the rapi...,
What is surveillance like in the ...
5  cards
READING - Week 4 - Twitter, now X, will begin collecting users' biometric data
Why is x collecting biometric dat...,
What is the name author and publi...
2  cards
READING - Week 4 - Freedom of Expression in a Datafied World
What is the name author and publi...,
How does datafication analyze cit...,
What are the consequences of a da...
4  cards
READING - Week 5 - A Match Made in the Heavens: The Surveillance State and the "New Space" Economy
What is the name author and publi...,
How does a space sector dominated...,
Why do we rely so much on space t...
3  cards
READING - Week 5 - Space Technology and the Rise of the US Surveillance State
What is the name author and publi...,
What is the main argument of this...,
Why was reconnaissance important ...
5  cards
READING - Week 6 - “Brazil, Elon Musk and the Misuse of Digital Sovereignty”
What is the name author and publi...,
What is the main argument of the ...,
Why is brazil winning against mus...
5  cards
READING - Week 6 - Internet Shutdowns: A Human Rights Issue
What is the name author and publi...,
What is the main argument of the ...,
What are some implications of int...
5  cards
Week 6 - Information Controls in the Digital Age
Explore different approaches to governing the Internet and social media
4  cards
Week 8 - Social Media Regulation and Platform (Un)accountability
Why do social media companies nee...,
What is governance 2,
What are the 3 modes of governance 3
8  cards
READING - Week 8 - Tech Companies and the Public Interest: the Role of the State in Governing Social Media Platforms
What is the role of the state 1,
What are possible policy solutions 2,
Content moderation 3
6  cards
READING - Week 8 - EU Clears Path for National Social Media Bans
Title author year 1,
What did eu commission say 2
2  cards
Week 9 - Disinformation and Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour
What is coordinated inauthentic b...,
What are definitional issues and ...,
Why do people believe in disinfor...
5  cards
READING - Week 9 - Fake Elections Cyber Propaganda, Disinformation and the 2017 General Elections in Kenya
Title author and year 1,
What is disinformation 2,
What is misinformation 3
7  cards
READING - Week 9 - It's Time to Reframe Disinformation: Indonesia's Elections Show Why
Title author year 1,
What happened in the indonesian 2...
2  cards
Week 10 - Investigating Censorship, Surveillance and Digital Repression
What is the vicious cycle 1,
Explain social media algorithmic ...,
Explain privatized subversion dar...
6  cards
READING - Week 10 - Accessible Censorship
Title author year 1,
Why are internet shutdowns an iss...
2  cards
READING - Week 10 - The Autocrat in Your iPhone: How Mercenary Spyware Threatens Democracy
Title author year 1,
Use of spyware 2,
How has spyware been growing 3
4  cards
Week 11 - Surveillance Technologies and Digital Transnational Repression
What is terrorism and how does it...,
Tech companies response to terror...,
Why does this issue matter 3
3  cards
READING - Week 11 - Engaging the Community: Combating Transnational Repression in Canada
Title author year 1,
How is transnational repression v...,
What are the hogue inquiry s reco...
7  cards
READING - Week 11 - Gender-based Digital Transnational Repression as a Global Authoritarian Practice
Title author year 1,
How does dtr affect women differe...,
What are the four modes of tr 3
4  cards
READING - Week 12 - Information, doubt, and democracy: how digitization spurs democratic decay
Title author year 1,
How does digitization transform c...,
Why does information agnostics an...
4  cards

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