Digital Authoritarianism Part 2

Digital Authoritarianism Part 2 free download

A World Tour

In Digital Authoritarianism Part 1, we explored the globally relevant mechanisms dictators use to dominate the digital world. In this sequel course, we apply case studies across four distinct regions to provide empirical examples of how unique regimes have emerged to control information and populations in various socio-cultural contexts.

Importantly, this work builds off of the deep scholarship identifying the influential and comprehensive nature of China's unique internet governance and information communication technological development models, and students are similarly encouraged to continue their study by supplementing course materials with the instructor's textbook on the foundational elements of the internet in China.

Outside of a primary focus on China, the course expands its view on two other important digital authoritarian states in the Asia-Pacific space (North Korea and Russia), while incorporating how a group of countries far away in Latin America (namely Cuba and Venezuela) crafted their own structures for online repression. In addition, the course concludes by building off of prior conversation about theocracies and technology while examining the interaction between information technology and conservative religious regimes in places like the Middle East (and especially in Iran).

Because of the last section of the course in particular the successful completion of Digital Authoritarianism Part 1 (available here on Udemy) is necessary to adequately pass the tests in this Part 2 offering.