Exploring Digital Spheres
Exploring Digital Spheres
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
Digital civil disobedience
23 minutes Posted Nov 12, 2019 at 3:54 pm.
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Theresa Züger on resistance in the digital age

What do Edward Snowden, Aaron Swartz and Phil Zimmermann have in common? This episode is all about whistleblowers, activists and other people deliberately breaking the law for a specific ideological conviction. What are the parallels to for example the civil rights movement in the US, Ghandi, Rosa Parks or the anti-nuclear energy protests in Germany. And what's new?

Theresa Züger, researcher at HIIG, talks with Wouter about her research insights into practices and characteristics of digital disobedience. Listen to her sharing stories of encryption, hacking and whistleblowing.

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