Essays about: "Technology and democracy"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 49 essays containing the words Technology and democracy.

  1. 21. Internet Surveillance Law in the UK and Article 8 'Right to Privacy'

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Spencer Whiskard; [2018]
    Keywords : Internet; Surveillance; Article 8; Right to Privacy; Technology; ECHR; ECtHR; IPA 2016; Investigatory Powers Act 2016; Hacking; Data; Digital; 1984; Freedom; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. READ MORE

  3. 22. From Backstage to Center Stage: An exploration of Hannes Alfvén’s role(s) as an expert advisor, 1945-1980

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : David Bowling; [2018]
    Keywords : expert; expertise; Hannes Alfvén; nuclear power; performance; science and technology; techno-science idealism; history of science; performativity; technocracy; science and democracy; anti-nuclear movements; Cultural Sciences;

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  4. 23. The Future of the New Media Economy : exploring the entangling identities of advertising and journalism professionals via the phenomenon of native advertising

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Alicia Gant; [2018]
    Keywords : Marketization of Journalism; Native Advertising; Political Economy of Media; Democracy; Professional Identity; Interpretative Repertoires; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the relationship between journalism and advertising from the individual professional’s perspective. In-depth qualitative interviews with a total of eleven individuals currently working in Sweden or Denmark as either journalists or advertising, marketing and public relations professionals have been conducted, in which native advertisements have been shown and discussed. READ MORE

  5. 24. ART + DEMOCRACY: Expanding the meaning and practice of Democracy through Public Art

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : WILLIAM DOHERTY; [2018]
    Keywords : Interaction Design; Art and Democracy; Democracy; Public Art;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to an EU Policy Lab project entitled The Future of Government 2030+. The aim of which is to generate knowledge in the context of the rapidly changing relationship between citizens and government. READ MORE

  6. 25. Realizing Rawls in an Automated Future

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kalle Eriksson; [2018]
    Keywords : automation; John Rawls; justice as fairness; socialism; property-owning democracy; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled machines to take over many of the tasks that could previously only be carried out by humans. This trend is expected to continue, urging political theory to propose ideas for how the organization of society can be adapted accordingly. READ MORE