Strategies of digital authoritarianism

Abstract

This Panel addresses the varieties of digital authoritarianism. What individual practices and overall strategies of digital authoritarianism exist? How do individual digital practices complement each other and how are they combined with existing authoritarian tactics offline? What purposes are digital strategies supposed to serve and which parts of the population do they target? What infrastructures underlie the use of digital strategies and which actors—public or private, domestic or foreign—are involved in enabling them? We also welcome contributions which engage with general theories or conceptual overviews of digital authoritarianism as well as individual conceptual and methodological questions such as the difference between misinformation and disinformation and how to operationalize and measure such concepts.

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