Here’s a small glimpse of what’s taking shape in the CITR Tools and Resources Hub:
➡️ Research tools and toolkits that support rigorous, independent inquiry
➡️ Resources for navigating harassment and threats
➡️ Platform archives that help preserve contested or disappearing data
➡️ Guidance on litigation support and evidence gathering
➡️ Materials on transparency and access to data
➡️ Practical guides and shared frameworks drawn from collective practice (2/3)
Independent tech research depends on shared infrastructure – tools, practices, strategies, and solidarity that can be sustained beyond institutions and funding cycles. Collective knowledge enables these shared infrastructures.
Recently, we hosted an edit-a-thon as a collective exercise in building and reflecting on a tools and resources hub. The focus was on how knowledge is shaped collaboratively, what’s useful, what’s missing, and how resources can travel responsibly across contexts. (1/3)
We’re happy to share that the Coalition for Independent Technology Research has been awarded a grant from Siegel Family Endowment as part of their investments in work to reimagine how people learn, work, and innovate for a more inclusive tech future.
Check out the diverse cohort of organizations who we’re proud to be joining:
/PRNewswire/ -- Siegel Family Endowment, a foundation focused on shaping the impact of technology on society, today announced $15.6 million in grants to...
What is digital authoritarianism?
A new book chapter by Coalition member Allison Wun-hui Koh, Anita Gohdes, and Maurice Schumann maps how governments use digital tools to manufacture support, suppress opposition, and preempt future dissent.
A sharp look at evolving tech-enabled repression. ⬇️
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111298559/html#contents
This book establishes a new, and much-needed, interdisciplinary field of Political Control . The Earl and Braithwaite layered model of repression integrates previously siloed areas into a larger study of Political Control , connecting research spanning a variety of disciplines (Sociology, Political Science, Communication), interdisciplinary fields (Law and Society, Internet Studies, Surveillance Studies), and various area studies (American studies, China studies). Instead of treating the study of repression as beginning and ending with the direct surveillance and suppression of social movements, nonviolent resistance, and violent contention (e.g., civil wars, terrorism), the layered model of repression broadens the lens to examine how quiescence may be produced and maintained through political controls directed at entire societies and/or minoritized populations and operating through political institutions and/or civil society. This more comprehensive understanding of political control allows scholars to identify the broader strategies and tactics that governments and non-governmental authorities use to prevent, and lacking that, reduce or eliminate dissent. The layered model also highlights how activists and dissidents have countered these attempts at control. By organizing and relating these literatures using the layered model under the umbrella of political control, this volume provides the most comprehensive and wholistic view of the context in which movements form, operate, and dissolve and the overall control complex movements face.