CTRL + Power: The (Geo)politics of Digital Authoritarianism
The symposium "CTRL + Power: The (Geo)politics of Digital Authoritarianism" will be held in Turin on May 6th-7th, 2024 in partnership between T.wai and LSE IDEAS, in cooperation with the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society and with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
Whether democratic or not, governments have become aware (and wary) of the many ways in which the digital domain could support or undermine the stability of their regimes.
Autocracies and hybrid regimes have demonstrated their adaptive capacity and have used digital technologies to preserve, if not expand, their authoritarian traits, while democracies have to protect themselves from the authoritarian threats lurking within the digital domain.