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What does whistleblowing and online diaspora engagement have in common? Both issues are key topics in contemporary struggles for democracy and threats to democracy that are deeply entwined with digital media.
At this DIIS-AMIS seminar, anthropologist Victoria Bernal highlights the contradictions of the potentials of digital media, based on long-term and recent research on security, surveillance and politics. With her recent research on digital surveillance, cybersecurity, and privacy in relation to the U.S. security state, she brings together long-term research on Eritrean politics online and how Eritrean diaspora groups have used digital media to express themselves politically. Victoria Bernal suggests that viewing Eritrean politics and American politics together finds lines of convergence such that the dichotomy between northern liberal democracies and southern authoritarian, dictatorial regimes is becoming much less distinct.
After Victoria Bernal’s presentation there will be a discussion by Simon Turner who has worked with social media and displacement in the recent conflict in Burundi.
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