Democracy in an Age of Networked Control.
Contemporary repression, this essay contends, is no longer mainly the visible work of censors and jailers; it is networked, algorithmic, and invisible, teaching millions who have never been imprisoned to hesitate and self-censor. Freedom, the author insists, is not an abstraction but a set of concre...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Democracy Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 143 - 156 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Jul2026
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