Political technologies and disinformation around the globe

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14.00-16.00
DIIS ∙ Danish Institute for International Studies
SEE PROGRAMME AND DIRECT LINKS TO THE PRESENTATIONS BELOW.

New technologies are employed around the world to supress political opponents, destabilize authorities and challenge democracy. Governments, political groups and insurgents alike put to use social media and digital technology to further their political and economic ambitions. Upsurges in digital media users and a monopoly of information and news risk spurring violence and conflict from South Africa to Myanmar, as digital operations wreak havoc.

This DIIS seminar will open up the broad field of political technologies to see how these are currently shaping political and social life around the Global South. It brings together researchers who have monitored the global organization of digital manipulation and explored political technologies at large.

The seminar coincides with the launch of a new Danish book by DIIS Researcher Adam Fejerskov on the political and social ramifications of new technologies.

Speakers
Amélie Henle, Oxford Internet Institute
Shelby Grossmann, Stanford University
Flemming Splidsboel Hansen, DIIS
Peer Schouten, DIIS
Adam Moe Fejerskov, DIIS

Programme
0:00 Political technologies and experimentation in the Global South, Adam Moe Fejerskov
14:34 Information operations and the digital domain, Flemming Splidsboel Hansen
34:32 The Global Disinformation Order, Amélie Henle
54:49 Russia-linked online influence operations in Africa, Shelby Grossmann
1:10:54 Political technologies of insurgencies, Peer Schouten
1:26:16 Discussions followed by a glass of wine

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