scholarly journals Where the wild things are: Evolving futures of communications regulation in the current national security context

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Susanne Lloyd-Jones
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Regulatory Elements ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Security Context

In March 2008, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) released a report dealing with the possible implications of the ‘top six trends’ in communications and media technologies, applications and services. The report highlights the fact that key regulatory elements in the communications environment are being conceptually ‘stretched and pulled’ by the accelerating pace of change in communications technologies, applications and services. The report also notes that in the longer term, there will be increasing overlapping developments in technology and increasing interconnections between people, databases and objects. 

The Myth of a Migration Crisis in France

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-144
Author(s):  
Isabelle Rigoni
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
National Security ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Modes Of Action ◽  
Security Context ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Institutional Actors

France is an old immigration country but has been slow to recognize itself as such. Since 2000, the Western security context has produced a new stage in migration and asylum policies. The tragic and traumatic nature of terrorist attacks in France and other European countries has legitimized the strengthening of national security laws, fueled more conservative attitudes regarding cultural and ethnic diversity, and fed into debates on communitarianism, multiculturalism, and universalism. This chapter analyzes how migratory dynamics have been constructed as a crisis in contemporary France and examines the initiatives of civil society towards what politics and media consider to be a migration crisis. Finally, it analyzes the modes of action used by various social and institutional actors in the context of an imagined migration crisis.

scholarly journals Content and relationship between the main categories of the modern security environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Vitaliy Kryvoshein
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Law System ◽  
State Security ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Security Context ◽  
Political Security

The study aims to analyse the connection among types of security intimidations: threats, challenges, vulnerabilities, and security risks, to establish the rapport between national and global threats, to review critical issues of the security environment.The study’s relevance is that the concept of security needs to be updated in the current changes in the global security context and the emergence of an increasing number and variety of threats under the transformations that are taking place. The research shows how the reconceptualization of security in the late twentieth century was influenced by global contextual changes associated with the end of the Cold War and the use of constructivist approaches in the social sciences. This dual change has led to a rethinking of security challenges in the second decade of the 21st century, leading to increased interest in this study. It is exposed that the concepts of vulnerability and risk are used not only in the context of foreign and defence policy, but also concerning ecologic security challenges caused by global environmental change, climate change and dangers and disasters, where there is no consensus within and among the community on vulnerability, and risks. In conclusion, it is proved that conceptual thinking on security threats has necessitated precise definition and consensus on these concepts, especially on practical policy measures to achieve agreed goals, and systematization of types of threats to all types of security and life support. It is determined that the degradation of traditional political institutions, against the background of the degeneration of the established international law system and order, cause the emergence of new threats to national security and, accordingly, political, as its subcategories. It is noted that modern researchers have paid little attention to studying the connection between the concepts of political security, state security and threats to state security. In the context of new globalization threats, states are facing a change in the security context and need to review security strategies and update the discourse on political and national security.

Viability, Sustainability, Scalability and Pedagogy

2011 ◽  
pp. 291-306
Author(s):  
Robyn Smyth ◽  
Deborah Vale ◽  
Trish Andrews ◽  
Richard Caladine
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Desktop Videoconferencing ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Rich Media ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Media Project ◽  
Australian Universities

In a two year project called the Leading Rich Media project, the implementation of rich media technologies in Australian universities was investigated from the standpoints of viability, sustainability, scalability and pedagogy. Over half of all universities responded with several respondents from each institution providing rich data concerning how implementation is planned, funded, maintained and administered. The silences in the investigation were interesting, with the project team discovering a surprising lack of current scholarly publications available to inform their work. Other silences in the data led them to conclude that there is a policy and strategic planning void in many institutions which could threaten best use of emerging rich media technologies such as desktop videoconferencing and other synchronous communications technologies.

scholarly journals Political Context and Meaning of British Citizenship: Cancellation as a National Security Measure

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devyani Prabhat
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Security Measure ◽  
Foreign Nationality ◽  
Legal Formalism ◽  
Security Context

This article places the court cases on cancellation of British citizenship in the context of the wider socio-political debates on citizenship. The political context demonstrates several potential arguments linking citizenship with rights which could have informed the court cases. However, an observable trend is that while some of the decisions flag various substantive rights, most fail to expand upon them. A formal, legal approach to determination of foreign nationality laws and statelessness is evident in the cases rather than a discussion of rights and belonging. This illustrates how legal formalism operates to exclude important aspects of the meaning and content of British citizenship. By avoiding close scrutiny of the rights framework in the national security context the current cases support a minimal view of citizenship as loyalty in exchange for protection. This is reminiscent of the concept of subjecthood from the days of Empire. The article argues that intense proportionality review of the differential enjoyment of substantive rights would be far more revealing of the meaning and content of British citizenship.

Media technology, covert action, and the politics of exposure

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F Joseph ◽  
Michael Poznansky
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Covert Action ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Covert Operations ◽  
The Many

States wishing to use force in the modern era frequently face strong incentives to exploit secrecy. Successful covert operations can reduce the likelihood of unwanted escalation with powerful rivals and help leaders conceal unpopular actions from domestic and foreign audiences alike. The many benefits of secrecy, however, can only be realized if covert operations remain covert. We argue that access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) is a critical factor that increases the chances that a covert mission will be exposed. As a result, leaders are much less likely to reach for the quiet option when a potential target has dense ICT networks. We illustrate our mechanism through US national security archival vignettes. We test our argument using a dataset of declassified US military and electoral interventions intended to subvert incumbent regimes throughout the Cold War. The core finding, that leaders are less likely to pursue covert action relative to alternative options when the chances of exposure are high, holds across five distinct measures of ICT networks as well as different model specifications and placebo tests. Our findings suggest that Cold War-style covert operations may well be a thing of the past in an age where communication and media technologies have proliferated to the far corners of the globe. We advance debates on communications technologies, covert action, and political violence.

Formation of the information space of the new generation of Russia: media educational practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
O. Kokhanaya
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
New Generation

The author analyzes the problems of humanitarian education and upbringing of the younger generation, which are necessary to ensure Russia's national security in the 21st century, the transformation of communication mechanisms of children and adolescents at the present stage; Successful media educational projects and media technologies forming a new information space are considered.

Communications, New Technologies, and Innovation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Prosperity Preaching ◽  
Mediated Messages

This chapter outlines the discussion over the influence of new media and communications technologies on the spread of (particularly charismaticized) Protestantism in Africa. It links the contemporary debate to the debate about the origins of Protestantism in the sixteenth-century communications revolution sparked by the invention of the printing press. Building on the work of scholars such as Lamin Sanneh, the chapter addresses issues of translation, the nature of modern media technologies and their semiotic impact on mediated messages; the construction of the public square and the ‘re-publicization of religion’. Particular attention is given to the rise of charismatic media empires, involving integrated print, digital, and satellite/television media, often in support of pentecostal/charismatic prosperity-preaching megachurches and their celebrity pastors.

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