{"product_id":"the-rise-of-digital-repression-9780190057497","title":"The Rise of Digital Repression","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steven Feldstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries. While increasing numbers of people rely primarily or exclusively on online platforms, authoritarian regimes have concurrently\u003cbr\u003edeveloped a formidable array of technological capabilities to constrain and repress their citizens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Rise of Digital Repression\u003c\/em\u003e, Steven Feldstein documents how the emergence of advanced digital tools bring new dimensions to political repression. Presenting new field research from Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, he investigates the goals, motivations, and drivers of these digital\u003cbr\u003etactics. Feldstein further highlights how governments pursue digital strategies based on a range of factors: ongoing levels of repression, political leadership, state capacity, and technological development. The international community, he argues, is already seeing glimpses of what the frontiers of\u003cbr\u003erepression look like. For instance, Chinese authorities have brought together mass surveillance, censorship, DNA collection, and artificial intelligence to enforce their directives in Xinjiang. As many of these trends go global, Feldstein shows how this has major implications for democracies and\u003cbr\u003ecivil society activists around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA compelling synthesis of how anti-democratic leaders harness powerful technology to advance their political objectives, \u003cem\u003eThe Rise of Digital Repression \u003c\/em\u003econcludes by laying out innovative ideas and strategies for civil society and opposition movements to respond to the digital autocratic wave.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45608444199063,"sku":"9780190057497","price":3119.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190057497.webp?v=1767943057","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-rise-of-digital-repression-9780190057497","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}