[Air-L] ECPR Digital Authoritarianism RN Online Lecture, 4 Feb: Prof. Oliver Schlumberger

[Ülker Sözen]

ECPR Digital Authoritarianism Research Network
<https://ecpr.eu/group/digital-authoritarianism> launches the
online lecture series "The Many Faces of Digital Authoritarianism". We
cordially invite you for the first lecture by Professor Oliver Schlumberger
with the title "The Digital Transformation of Authoritarianism". You can
find below the abstract and bio of Prof. Schlumberger.

The lecture will be held online via Zoom on *February 4, Tuesday between
15:00 - 16:30 CET. *

Topic: ECPR Digital Authoritarianism RN Lecture Series- Prof. Oliver
Schlumberger
Time: Feb 4, 2025 03:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
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Kind regards,

ECPR Digital Authoritarianism RN Steering Committee

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"The Digital Transformation of Authoritarianism"

This talk provides an overview of various dimensions in which digitization
causes, has caused, or will cause politically significant transformations
of the mode of governance in authoritarian regimes. Such dimensions include
the regimes themselves and the elites who run them; state-society relations
that we see changing profoundly, including the chances of anti-systemic
(i.e. democratic) oppositional actors; state-business relations in both the
domestic and global realm; as well as an international dimension in which
many of the domestic transformative aspects find their counterpart beyond
 the borders of the respective country. Maybe most importantly, however -
and not restricted to authoritarian regimes, but much more pronounced than
in democracies -  we should pay attention to the immaterial, cognitive
dimension where we see a contemporaneousness of multiple aspects coincide
that together amount to a crisis of what is known, of what is believed, and
of what is believed to be known.

The overall purpose of the intervention is thus not a presentation of
empirical research results, but rather to inspire future research in a
relatively new, but potentially vast, field of research.“

Bio:

Oliver Schlumberger is professor of Comparative Politics at Eberhard-Karls
University of Tübingen. Having studied at Tübingen, Geneva and Damascus,
his main research interests are authoritarianism; systemic political change
(autocratization and democratization) and, lately, the transformations of
politics through digitization. His latest publications on the relationship
between digitization and politics are: „How authoritarianism transforms: A
Framework for the Study of Digital Dictatorship“ (McMeehan-Prize for the
best article; jointly with M. Edel; A. Maati; and K. Saglam, 2024, in*
Government
& Opposition*) and „Information, Doubt and Democracy: How Digitization
Spurs Democratic Decay“ (jointly with A. Maati; K. Saglam; Ch. Sirikupt;
and M. Edel, 2023, in *Democratization*).