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Critical Human Security and Cyberspace: Enablement Besides Constraint
Alan Collins 
Digitalisation and Human Security, Pages: 83 - 109
Swansea University Author:
Alan Collins
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-030-48070-7_4
Abstract
Whether it is accusations of Russian meddling in Western elections by shaping public opinion through social media, or fears that democracy is endangered by algorithms that restrict news access through social media, or that social media is infected by trolls that commit cyberbullying and spread misin...
| Published in: | Digitalisation and Human Security |
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| ISBN: | 9783030480691 9783030480707 |
| Published: |
Cham
Springer International Publishing
2020
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55062 |
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| Abstract: |
Whether it is accusations of Russian meddling in Western elections by shaping public opinion through social media, or fears that democracy is endangered by algorithms that restrict news access through social media, or that social media is infected by trolls that commit cyberbullying and spread misinformation, it is evident that social networking sites, and more broadly the infrastructure that underpins Information and Communication Technology (ICT), has not been the unmitigated success that the early pioneers had hoped. Nevertheless, it is also true that the digital revolution ushered in an age of transparency that, at least initially, severed elites’ control over information, and thus knowledge, and connected like-minded people on a scale not previously possible. In this chapter I explain that conceiving of cyberspace as an arena for human empowerment or human containment is what a critical human security approach can bring to the debate. It will reveal the duality of trends in social media that espouse an emancipatory potential while embedding constraints on human agency. |
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| Keywords: |
Critical Human Security; Echo Chambers; Faces of Power; Emancipation |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Funders: |
Enablement Besides Constraints: Human Security and a Cyber Multi-Disciplinary Framework in the European
High North (ECoHuCy) - Funded by NordForsk (81030) |
| Start Page: |
83 |
| End Page: |
109 |