ALEXISWICHOWSKI
READINGS
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CLASS #1: INTRO & OVERVIEW
(readings forthcoming)
CLASS #2: NATIONAL SECURITY FOUNDATIONS
Wichowski, A (2017) "Introduction." The Information Trade
(additional readings forthcoming)
CLASS #3: NATIONAL SECURITY CONCEPTS
EPIC Surveillance Overview (browse)
(additional readings forthcoming)
CLASS #4: NATIONAL SECURITY PRACTICES
(additional readings forthcoming)
CLASS #5: GOVERNMENT TECH
Castells, M. (2012). Networks of outrage & hope: social infrastructure and movements in the internet age.” Pgs 1-19 “Networking defense technologies minds, creating meaning, contesting power”; Pgs 246-262, “Changing the world in a network society”
(additional readings forthcoming)
CLASS #6: CITIZEN & SOCIAL MOVEMENT TECH
Coleman, G. (2014). Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous. “And now you have got our tools movements use of attention,” “Project Chanology - I came for the lulz but stayed for the outrage.”
Wichowski, "Secrecy is for losers: how diplomats can protect national security by embracing openness"
(additional readings forthcoming)
CLASS #7: EMERGING PLAYERS TECH
Beebe, S. & Kaldor, M. (2010). The ultimate weapon is no weapon: human security and the new rules of war and peace. Pgs. 19-50, “The Twenty-first century risks” and “The financial entity use of twentieth-century mindset.”
Douek, E. (2021). “Governing online speech: From" posts-as-trumps" to proportionality and probability. Columbia Law Review, vol. 121, Pgs. 759-833 (focus: Pgs. 769-802)
(additional readings forthcoming)
CLASS #8: INCENTIVES
Winner, L. (1980). "Do artifacts have politics?" Daedelus
Harari, Y. (2018 ). "Why technology favors tyranny," The Atlantic
Schaake, M. (2020). "How democracies can claim back power in the digital world." MIT Technology Review
Nye, J. (2011). The future of power. Pgs. 3-24 “What is power in global affairs”?
(additional readings forthcoming)
CLASS #9: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
(additional readings forthcoming)
CLASS #10: "PRESS CONFERENCE"
CLASS #11: GUEST SPEAKERS
CLASS #12: SO WHAT?
CLASS #13: PRESENTATIONS