What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?

IF 3.5 2区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
A. Dwyer, Clare Stevens, L. P. Muller, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Pip Thornton
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Abstract

Cybersecurity has attracted significant political, social, and technological attention as contemporary societies have become increasingly reliant on computation. Today, at least within the Global North, there is an ever-pressing and omnipresent threat of the next “cyber-attack” or the emergence of a new vulnerability in highly interconnected supply chains. However, such discursive positioning of threat and its resolution has typically reinforced, and perpetuated, dominant power structures and forms of violence as well as universalist protocols of protection. In this collective discussion, in contrast, six scholars from different disciplines discuss what it means to “do” “critical” research into what many of us uncomfortably refer to as “cybersecurity.” In a series of provocations and reflections, we argue that, as much as cybersecurity may be a dominant discursive mode with associated funding and institutional “benefits,” it is crucial to look outward, in conversation with other moves to consider our technological moment. That is, we question who and what cybersecurity is for, how to engage as academics, and what it could mean to undo cybersecurity in ways that can reassess and challenge power structures in the twenty-first century.
关键的网络安全能做什么?
随着当代社会越来越依赖计算,网络安全引起了政治、社会和技术的极大关注。今天,至少在全球北方,下一次“网络攻击”或高度互联的供应链中出现新的漏洞的威胁迫在眉睫,无所不在。然而,这种对威胁及其解决的随意定位通常强化并延续了占主导地位的权力结构和暴力形式以及普遍主义的保护协议。相比之下,在这次集体讨论中,来自不同学科的六位学者讨论了对我们许多人不舒服地称之为“网络安全”的东西进行“批判性”研究意味着什么。在一系列挑衅和反思中,我们认为,尽管网络安全可能是一种具有相关资金和机构“利益”的主导话语模式,但在与其他举措的对话中,考虑我们的技术时刻,向外看是至关重要的。也就是说,我们质疑网络安全是为了谁和什么,作为学者如何参与,以及以重新评估和挑战21世纪权力结构的方式破坏网络安全意味着什么。
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CiteScore
4.80
自引率
12.50%
发文量
23
期刊介绍: International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.
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