Kristina Aleksandrovna Pedersen defends her PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

PHD defence

Candidate

Kristina Aleksandrovna Pedersen

Title

"Subtle Strings and Loud Chains Autocratic Strategies of Information Control and Their Impact on Media and Political Expression".

The thesis

The thesis can be loaned from the Royal Danish Library.

Time and venue

Friday 22 November 2024 from 14:00-17:00 at Centre for Health and Society, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK-1353 Copenhagen K., room 1.1.18. Kindly note that the defence will start precisely at 14:00.

Assessment committee

  • Associate Professor Frederik Georg Hjorth (Chair), University of Copenhagen
  • Professor Jennifer Pan, Stanford University
  • Associate Professor Katerina Tertytchnaya, Oxford University

Abstract

One of the great threats faced by modern autocratic regimes is expansive access to the consumption and exchange of information brought upon by developments in technology. Despite hopeful predictions about new pathways for democratization in light of the new opportunities afforded to opposition movements and civil society, autocrats have acclimated to the communication technologies and solidified an updated range of on- and offline information control tools.