2025/03/16 by Azadeh Akbari, David Murakami Wood · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Social Media and Politics
paper · pdf · doi:10.24908/ss.v23i1.18917
openalex publication_date 2025/03/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
In this short piece, we suggest some directions for considering the interrelated questions of postcolonial authoritarianism, platform capitalism, and surveillance. We first put forward a three-level model of contemporary digital authoritarianism, which argues for a prism of discourses, practices, and infrastructures, before we turn specifically to the political economy of contemporary capitalism. Here, we shift the focus away from only either state and/or the individual and the conventional entities in between, to consider the new platform actors driving authoritarianism and digital surveillance in the twenty-first century.