[Commlist] Call for abstracts - Digital Authoritarianism in the Age of Globalisation- ISA conference

    Please see below call for abstracts for a session Janroj Yilmaz 
Keles is organizing at the International Sociological Association’s 
Forum in Porto Allegre, Brazil July 14-18, 2020


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*Title:*

  Digital Authoritarianism in the Age of Globalisation

*Research Committee:*

  RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture (host committee)

*Final Abstract SubmissionDeadline*: September 30, 2019

*Abstract submission 
link:*https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/cfp.cgi

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*Abstract:*

*Digital Authoritarianism in the age of globalisation*

Digital media can have a liberating potential by the bypassing of 
censorship, surveillance and interference of the authoritarian regimes. 
It has empowered individuals and communities to have access to 
unfiltered and uncontrolled information and in some degree, it has 
driven to unanticipated changes to the authoritarian regimes such as in 
Tunisia or Egypt in 2011 during the Arab Spring. Itfacilitates 
alternative modes of representation, virtual communications, spaces and 
communities. The formation of counter-publics and spaces is increasingly 
undermining authoritarian information control. In a parallel 
development, the authoritarian governments around the world are 
tightening control over interactivity of their citizens and restricting 
their access to the information. The control of the information flow and 
online communication have become requisite for “networked 
authoritarians” to maintain their repressive rule. For this purpose, 
these regimes use multiple strategies (coercive and technological) to 
surveil their populations to identify critical voices and prevent 
potential challenges.

This proposed panel aims to explore the methods that authoritarian 
regimes employ to build their digital authoritarian system in order to 
establish and maintain their hegemony over the society.

Researchers are kindly invited to contribute to the session through 
submissions of their research abstracts.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

The Internet and state control in authoritarian regimes

Social movements, the Internet and state.

Digital authoritarianism, democracy and freedom of speech

Self-censorship and digital silence

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