Dictators and oppressive regimes the planet over buy billions of dollars worth of digital surveillance technology from Western companies every year. Which results in direct violation of the human ri...
Giovanna Loccatelli
Giovanna Loccatelli is a freelance journalist who has written from Cairo for both the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano and the Italian online news magazine Linkiesta.it and from London for both Reuters and the Italian press agency ANSA. She is the author of Twitter e le rivoluzioni (2011) on the role of social networks in the 2011 uprisings in North Africa.
Techniques of dissidence and digital repression The fight for online freedom of expression is conducted using the same weapons that authoritarian regimes employ in trying to suppress it. A fight in...
Civic activism and information: the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and beyond
Civic activism and information: the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and beyond Is social struggle, whether aimed at toppling an oppressive regime or radically changing the political agenda within a W...