Assembling Publics : Microsoft, Cybersecurity, and Public‐Private Relations

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/6771" target="_blank" >https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/6771</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i3.6771" target="_blank" >10.17645/pag.v11i3.6771</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Assembling Publics : Microsoft, Cybersecurity, and Public‐Private Relations

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In this article, we advance the literature on publics in international politics by exploring the nexus between publicness and big tech companies. This nexus finds a significant expression in the increasing impact of big tech companies to mediate disputes over societal problems, deliver social goods and rearticulate public-private relationships. We develop an analytical framework by combining recent scholarship on assemblage theory and publics, allowing us to understand publicness as enacted in practices which revolve around issues and rearticulate relations of authority and legitimacy. To demonstrate the value of the framework, we show how Microsoft is involved in assembling publicness around cybersecurity. Microsoft does so by problematising and countering state-led cybersecurity activities, questioning the state as a protector of its citizens and proposing governance measures to establish the tech sector as authoritative, and legitimate “first responders.” With this rearticulating of public-private relations, we see the emergence of a political subject for whom security is not solely the right of a citizen secured by the state but also a customer service provided as per a service agreement. The study hence offers important insights into the connection between publicness and cybersecurity, state and big tech relations, and the formation of authority and legitimacy in international politics.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Assembling Publics : Microsoft, Cybersecurity, and Public‐Private Relations

Popis výsledku anglicky

In this article, we advance the literature on publics in international politics by exploring the nexus between publicness and big tech companies. This nexus finds a significant expression in the increasing impact of big tech companies to mediate disputes over societal problems, deliver social goods and rearticulate public-private relationships. We develop an analytical framework by combining recent scholarship on assemblage theory and publics, allowing us to understand publicness as enacted in practices which revolve around issues and rearticulate relations of authority and legitimacy. To demonstrate the value of the framework, we show how Microsoft is involved in assembling publicness around cybersecurity. Microsoft does so by problematising and countering state-led cybersecurity activities, questioning the state as a protector of its citizens and proposing governance measures to establish the tech sector as authoritative, and legitimate “first responders.” With this rearticulating of public-private relations, we see the emergence of a political subject for whom security is not solely the right of a citizen secured by the state but also a customer service provided as per a service agreement. The study hence offers important insights into the connection between publicness and cybersecurity, state and big tech relations, and the formation of authority and legitimacy in international politics.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Politics and Governance

ISSN

2183-2463

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

11

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

PT - Portugalská republika

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

157-167

Kód UT WoS článku

001064475900007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85170106001