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FCJ-198 New International Information Order (NIIO) Revisited: Global Algorithmic Governance and Neocolonialism

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Danny Butt University of Melbourne At the beginning of the 20th century, competing global telegraph networks struggled to monopolise the international circulation of information. Governments did not nationalise the cable industry (as they had telephony and the postal system) and even at the peak of “new imperialism” in 1910 only 20% of the world’s cable […]

Issue 27: Network War/Conflict

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From representational to operational media in the war of perception The Australian Government has explicitly framed the treatment of asylum seekers arriving by sea to be a military operation. When he hadn’t yet been removed from power by members of his own party, Prime Minister Tony Abbott compared the operation to being on a war […]