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The Arduous Road to Revolution

Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in the Digital Communication Age
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The right to rebel against an authoritarian power is part of liberal and democratic culture. As early as the late seventeenth century, John Locke theorised that if a state abuses its citizens, they have the right to revolt. Nowadays, information and communication technologies can help the early stages of revolt. However, at the same time they also seem to offer the threatened autocrats powerful tools. Failed revolutions that have unfolded in our digital age in countries such as Myanmar, Ukraine, Iran, Egypt, Hong Kong and Belarus, bring to light the great and often successful efforts of authoritarian regimes to use new technologies for surveillance, oppression, propaganda, censorship, and the suppression of fundamental rights. The risk of a drift towards despotism, from which even long-established democracies are not immune, prompts us to ask what skills, rules and institutions might help citizens to defend their freedom when it is under threat, including in the digital sphere.

The right to rebel against an authoritarian power is part of liberal and democratic culture. As early as the late seventeenth century, John Locke theorised that if a state abuses its citizens, they have the right to revolt. Nowadays, information and communication technologies can help the early stages of revolt. However, at the same time they also seem to offer the threatened autocrats powerful tools. Failed revolutions that have unfolded in our digital age in countries such as Myanmar, Ukraine, Iran, Egypt, Hong Kong and Belarus, bring to light the great and often successful efforts of authoritarian regimes to use new technologies for surveillance, oppression, propaganda, censorship, and the suppression of fundamental rights. The risk of a drift towards despotism, from which even long-established democracies are not immune, prompts us to ask what skills, rules and institutions might help citizens to defend their freedom when it is under threat, including in the digital sphere.

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VerlagMimesis
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Seitenangabe116 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH14.2 cm x B21.0 cm x D1.5 cm 172 g
AutorGiacomini, Gabriele

Über den Autor Gabriele Giacomini

Gabriele Giacomini is Assistant Professor at the University of Udine, Italy, where he teaches Political Theory and coordinates the Master's course in Philosophy of Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. He has spent research periods at the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe in Rijeka and at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His research interests lie at the intersection of political theory and communication studies, with a focus on digital technologies, democracy and public opinion. He has published in Italian, English and Spanish in national and international journals. His books include "The Arduous Road to Revolution. Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in the Digital Communication Age" (2022).Roberto Paura is President of the IIF-Italian Institute for the Future Foundation, an Italian think tank focused on futures studies and foresight, institutional member of the World Futures Studies Federation and the Global Future Society. His areas of expertise include megatrends analysis, technology foresight, and the epistemology of futures studies. He has held teaching positions at the University of Campania (Global Politics) at the University of Trento (Introduction to Strategic Foresight), and at the University of Udine (Technological Anticipation). His essays have been published in the "Handbook of Futures Studies" (2024) and the "Routledge Handbook of Political Risk" (2025).

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