JOUD13H3

Surveillance, Censorship, and Press Freedom

There is a technological and strategic arms race between governmental, military, and corporate entities on the one hand and citizens, human rights workers, and journalists on the other. Across diverse geopolitical contexts, journalistic work faces systematic surveillance alongside the censorship of free speech and a free internet. This course examines those threats to press freedom and how the same technologies support collaboration among citizens and journalists–across borders, languages, and legal regimes­– to hold abuses of power to account.