Identify and Sort: How Digital Power Changed World Politics - Couverture souple

Ansorge, Jd Candidate Josef Teboho

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0190245557 ISBN 13 : 9780190245559

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The advent of information technology ushered in new forms of political power. Machines play crucial roles in how states see, understand, and act, and scrutiny of these processes lies at the heart of Identify and Sort. It frames debates about IT in world politics, explaining how industrial sorting systems employed by political actors are renegotiating the social contract between individuals and the state. Ansorge takes the reader on a global expedition that tracks the historical antecedents of digital power, from Aztec and Inca rituals, to medieval filing systems, to a grandiose 1930s design for a German registry, to the databases used in US presidential campaigns and how IT is deployed in war and post-conflict reconstruction.

Databases are also deployed virtually to record and act upon people who have no publicly visible identification or group consciousness; modern wars and election campaigns are fought on this individualised terrain. The uneven distribution of these technical capacities engenders inequality of access, while rights discourses and legal frameworks forged in an era of mass group discrimination, subjugation, and public resistance lag behind these micro-targeting practices. Rich in examples and ideas, Identify and Sort develops an analytical model and vocabulary to explain the functions and limits of digital power in world politics.

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À propos de l'auteur

Josef Teboho Ansorge practices law in New York City. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190245557
• ISBN 13: 9780190245559
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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