Class 1 exam Flashcards
Politics, especially international relations, as influenced by geographical factors.
Geopolitics
The profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country’s representatives abroad
Diplomacy
the authority of a state togovernitself or another state.
Soverignty
relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity such as spatial position, voltage, etc.
Analogue
A series of data as described as a series of 0 and 1
Digital
Not physically existing as such, but made by software to appear to do so
Virtual
Relating to or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality
Cyber
Controlled by or connected to a computer; generally, today, referring to being on the Internet in come capacity
Online
Term coined to express our lived experience of the ‘ever increasing’ pervasiveness of information and communication technologies; of being connected-disconnected or online and in ‘real life’ at the same time.
Onlife
a dynamic and interactive connection between two or more opposing or contradictory forces/ideas/concepts.
Dialectical relationship
“the vast amounts of digital data which are being produced in technologically and algorithmically mediated practices”
Big data
an actor’s authority to exercise its power in cyber-space; includes everything from technological (in)dependence to control over user personal data
Digital Soverginty
a form of cultural imperialism in which actors use digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another country or region with nominal benefit to the colonised
Digital colonialism
Basically, a quasi-state, a political entity that’s not a fully institutionalised, recognised, or autonomous sovereign
state.
Proto-State
the involvement of users, audiences, consumers and fans in the creation of culture and content
Participatory Culture
the intensification and extension of democracy as grassroots democracy to all realms of society
Participatory Democracy:
A form of government characterised by rejection of political plurality, use of strong central power to preserve political status quo, and reductions in or elimination of rule of law, separation of powers, and free and fair
elections
Authoritarianism
Also ‘digital dictatorship’; the use of information technology by authoritarian regimes to surveil, repress, and manipulate domestic and foreign populations
Digital Authoritarianism:
from the French for ‘oversight’; the monitoring of behaviour or data for purposes of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing.
Digital survalliance:
false information deliberately spread to deceive people.
disinformation
bad/false information, which is not deliberate
misinformation
a state’s strategy to communicate directly with foreign publics
public diplomacy
