@gdonovan: House Intelligence Cmte calls Chinese telecoms a national #security risk. #Geopolitics is dead! Long live geopolitics! http://t.co/v1CLujdI

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@gdonovan: #ShoestringDemocracy published in Journal of #UrbanAffairs w/ #SethaLow + @jgieseking #coop #privatization #openecology http://t.co/WhvqtMnQ
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@gdonovan: RT – Urge ur senators to VOTE NO on #CISPA + support #privacy http://t.co/Qcm7XwTx via @demandprogress #surveillance #cybersecurity
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@gdonovan: #NSA director @ #hacker conference: “In this room is the talent our nation needs to secure cyberspace” #cyberdominance http://t.co/06RK9HZG
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@gdonovan: RT @AnonyOps: Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure could have been prevented by common precautions
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@gdonovan: RT @ayandeato: Reddit Co-Founder Won’t Invest in Facebook Because of Stance on #CISPA http://t.co/GG64QIC3
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@gdonovan: ACLU comes out against 2012 Cyber Security Act and explains why it’s bad for our #privacy. #CSA #CISPA #cybersecurity http://t.co/vCLtHfhN
The Informational is Spatial: Understanding the Geoeconomics of Cybersecurity in Youth Environments
On Tuesday, 02/28/2012 @ 4PM, I’ll be presenting “The Informational is Spatial” at the Association of American Geographers’ paper session on “Geographies of Surveillance and Security 3: Data, Discourses, and Affects” (session organized by David Murakami Wood and Steve Graham).
Location: The Hilton New York, Second Floor, Sutton Parlor South.
Abstract: As cyberspace expands within young people’s everyday environments, so too does a geoeconomic conception of cybersecurity. My ongoing participatory action research project, MyDigitalFootprint.org, involved a team of youth co-researchers in investigating the production, circulation, and consumption of their personal data in order to collectively address larger questions of privacy, property, and security under informational capitalism. Of specific interest were how the material forms and social practices of proprietary digital environments such as Facebook and Twitter link up with the emerging U.S. war doctrine of cyberdominance. I discuss U.S. cyberdominance as a geoeconomic manifestation of security that aims to reframe a global cyberspace as a component of U.S. territory. Informational flows, from the global to the intimate, are thus cast as matters of national security that must be managed through a plethora of digital enclosure and surveillance mechanisms that are intimately experienced by U.S. youth through their routine participation in proprietary digital environments. Further, despite the “newness” of digital enclosure and surveillance I argue that these mechanisms are rooted in historical processes of environmental control and presuppose a geoeconomic logic of privatization and segregation already operating in our urban environments through strategies such as zoning, gating, and CCTV. I will conclude with a discussion of how the MyDigitalFootprint.org project’s development of its own open-source social network site served as a methodology for understanding the various forms of geoeconomic cybersecurity that become objectified, internalized, reworked, and/or resisted through young people’s everyday engagements with and within proprietary digital environments.