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Hacktivism 1-2-3: how privacy enhancing technologies change the face of anonymous hacktivism

Bodó, Balázs - In: Internet Policy Review 3 (2014) 4, pp. 1-13

This short essay explores how the notion of hacktivism changes due to easily accessible, military grade Privacy … protect users from online surveillance enable new forms of online political activism. Through the short summary of the ad …-hoc vigilante group Anonymous, this article describes hacktivism 1.0 as electronic civil disobedience conducted by outsiders …

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The politics of surveillance policy: UK regulatory dynamics after Snowden

Hintz, Arne; Dencik, Lina - In: Internet Policy Review 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-16

The revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have illustrated the scale and extent of digital surveillance carried out by different security and intelligence agencies. The publications have led to a variety of concerns, public debate, and some diplomatic fallout regarding the legality of...

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Hacktivism

Gawel, Hanna - In: Internet Policy Review 13 (2024) 2, pp. 1-12

Hacktivism represents a dynamic intersection of technology and activism, where individuals or groups leverage digital … tools to advance social or political causes. This text explores the multifaceted nature of hacktivism, encompassing a …

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Inexpressive law

Carbonara, Emanuela; Parisi, Francesco; von Wangenheim, … - 2010

According to expressive law theories, expression of values is an important function played by the law. Expressive laws affect behavior, not by threatening sanctions or promising rewards, but by changing individual preferences and tastes and, in some cases, by affecting social norms and values....

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Digitalisierung als Kontext politischen Handelns. Republikanische Perspektiven auf die digitale Transformation der Gegenwart

Thiel, Thorsten - In: Politische Theorie und Digitalisierung, (pp. 189-215). 2017

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Private politics and public regulation

Egorov, Georgy; Harstad, Bård - 2015

. (iv) Activism is a strategic complement to self-regulation, but a strategic substitute to public regulation. (v) In …

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Activists versus Captured Regulators

Daubanes, Julien; Rochet, Jean-Charles - 2013

We analyze the consequences of activism in a regulated industry where the regulator has been captured by the industry … regulators and their actions generate dead-weight costs. Yet we find that activism may increase social welfare because it …

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Rethinking the Political Economy of Environmental Conflict: Lessons from the UK Fracking Controversy

Marshall, Adam Patrick - 2023

As governments and corporations have intensified their efforts to locate, extract, and capitalise oil, gas, and various other biophysical materials, the world has simultaneously witnessed a proliferation of social resistance to these efforts. While taking many forms, such resistance, and...

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Voting turnout in Greece: Expressive or instrumental?

Daskalopoulou, Irene - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 9 (2020) 1, pp. 26-45

effects of citizens' socio-economic features, political participation, activism and trust as pointing to either an expressive …

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From Collectives to Connectives: Italian Media Activism and the Repurposing of the Social

Renzi, Alessandra - 2011

value of media activism for the creation of social assemblages in which the “media” literally mediates between individuals … activism into academia. The methodology is inspired by the militant research methods of the Italian Autonomia movement …

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