Victoria Baines

Rhetoric of InSecurity (eBook, PDF)

The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book demands that we question what we are told about security, using tools we have had for thousands of years. It will be essential to legal and policy practitioners, students of Law, Politics, Media, and Classics, and all those interested in employing critical thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000406559
• Artikelnr.: 61952372

Autorenporträt

Victoria Baines is Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University's School of Computing. She has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Oxford and lectured at Stanford University. Trained as a Classicist with a specialism in rhetoric in Roman literature, she worked as a law enforcement intelligence analyst and a technology company executive before returning to research. Her research touches on public policy, threat representation, surveillance, cyberspace and internet governance, and futures methods. She regularly contributes to media coverage on the misuse of social and emerging technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 - The Classical Heritage of Modern (In)Security Rhetoric
Chapter 2 - The Rhetoric of the US National Security Strategy
Chapter 3 - The War on Big Tech: Construction of Internet Companies as
Ideological Others
Chapter 4 - The Dark Wild West World War: Danger and Incapability in the
Realm of Cybersecurity
Chapter 5 - Epilogue