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Author Monsees, Linda

Title Crypto-Politics : Encryption and Democratic Practices in the Digital Era
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (163 pages)
Series Routledge New Security Studies
Routledge new security studies.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Crypto-politics -- Debating encryption -- Privacy, surveillance and diffuse security -- Politics of technology -- Publics and publicness -- Overview of the book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Researching the politics of technology -- The social study of technology -- Methodology -- Conclusion: understanding encryption controversies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. On publics in the technological society -- Hybrid forums and technological controversies -- The problem of issue formation -- John Dewey's theory of democracy -- Publicness -- Conclusion: controversies and new forms of publicness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Digital encryption -- Some basic principles of encryption -- From war technology to blockchains -- Privacy, anonymity, freedom: encryption as a political battlefield -- Conclusion: the politics of encryption -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Encryption and national security -- Risks in cyberspace -- The double role of encryption -- Conclusion: privacy and publicness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Contentious technology -- Theorising technology in practice -- Breaking encryption -- Conclusion: encryption beyond technocracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. The politics of publicness -- The politics of publicness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index
Summary "This book examines current debates about the politics of technology and the future of democratic practices in the digital era. The volume centres on the debates on digital encryption in Germany and the USA, during the aftermath of Edward Snowden's leaks, which revolved around the value of privacy and the legitimacy of surveillance practices. Using a discourse analysis of mass media and specialist debates, it shows how these are closely interlinked with technological controversies and how, as a result, contestation emerges not within one public sphere but within multiple expert circles. The book develops the notion of 'publicness' in order to grasp the political significance of these controversies, thereby making an innovative contribution to Critical Security Studies by introducing digital encryption as an important site for understanding the broader debates on cyber security and surveillance. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Data encryption (Computer science) -- Political aspects -- United States
Data encryption (Computer science) -- Political aspects -- Germany
Computer security -- Political aspects -- United States
Computer security -- Political aspects -- Germany
Privacy, Right of -- United States
Privacy, Right of -- Germany
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- General.
Privacy, Right of.
Germany.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429852688
0429852681
9780429852664
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0429852673
9780429852671
9780429456756
0429456751
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9781138314788