Digital authoritarian practices and the 21st century autocrat

该项目旨在研究专制政权的新兴数字实践，通过网络安全研究中未充分使用的定性方法产生关于专制主义的新知识。它建议确定这种“数字威权主义”是否是一种新的和独特的现象，或者更确切地说，是将离线威权主义实践转移到在线空间。预期成果包括加强对技术对专制议程的影响的理解，并生成支持有效国家安全政策的数据。这应该会带来以下好处：（1）进一步了解威权主义;（2）支持基于证据的政策，以应对威权主义的网络威胁。

This project aims to examine the emerging digital practices of authoritarian regimes, generating new knowledge on authoritarianism through qualitative methods that are underused in cybersecurity research. It proposes to determine whether such ‘digital authoritarianism’ is a new and distinct phenomenon, or rather the transposition of offline authoritarian practices into the online space. Expected outcomes include enhanced understanding of technology’s impacts on autocratic agendas and generating data that supports effective national security policy. This should create benefits such as (1) furthering knowledge on authoritarianism and (2) supporting evidence-based policies to respond to the authoritarian cyber threat.