ALEXISWICHOWSKI
READINGS
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CLASS #1: INTRO & OVERVIEW
(readings forthcoming)
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CLASS #2: NATIONAL SECURITY FOUNDATIONS
Wichowski, A (2017) "Introduction." The Information Trade
(additional readings forthcoming)
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CLASS #3: NATIONAL SECURITY CONCEPTS
EPIC Surveillance Overview (browse)
(additional readings forthcoming)
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CLASS #4: NATIONAL SECURITY PRACTICES
(additional readings forthcoming)
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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)
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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.”
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Wichowski, "Secrecy is for losers: how diplomats can protect national security by embracing openness"
(additional readings forthcoming)
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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.”
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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)
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CLASS #8: INCENTIVES
Winner, L. (1980). "Do artifacts have politics?" Daedelus
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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
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Nye, J. (2011). The future of power. Pgs. 3-24 “What is power in global affairs”?
(additional readings forthcoming)
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CLASS #9: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
(additional readings forthcoming)
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CLASS #10: "PRESS CONFERENCE"
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CLASS #11: GUEST SPEAKERS
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CLASS #12: SO WHAT?
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CLASS #13: PRESENTATIONS