📝 Student Essays from the Digital Authoritarianism Course
This collection features essays written by students enrolled in my course, Understanding Digital Authoritarianism. This course is taught at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). Now featuring essays from the academic year 2024/25.
Covering a wide range of topics — from strategies for managing children's digital security to in-depth regional case studies of digital control in provincial Russia — these essays offer diverse, research-informed perspectives on how power operates in digital spaces.
Explore how digital technologies shape governance, resistance, and everyday life.
Featured:
By Iliuza Mukhamedianova
By Vilma Bodin
By Anonymous Student
All essays
From Playground to Panopticon: How Childhood Surveillance Fuels Digital AuthoritarianismLocal Lines of Control: The Baymak Protests and Russia’s Digital Clampdown Digital Aesthetics: How China Employs Digital Authoritarian Methods to Control Personal Expression OnlineAuthoritarian by Design: AI, Big Tech, and the Architecture of Control Overturning Roe v. Wade and the Surveillance of WomenBig Brother & Big Tech Bros: The U.S. Digital Authoritarianism