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Thread/Time for political economy to make digital politics central to the field. @ProfKMcNamara have put together a primer on what we call the digital double movement, which could serve as a syllabus roadmap. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/29/apple-google-facebook-amazon-congress-hearing/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_tech-antitrust-8pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
2/The core question is how to create social protection in a digital world. Here we arranged the conversation around three core pillars -- sustainability, equality, and security. A link the booklet is here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vik4c6r4fzgb46v/DIGITAL%20DOUBLE%20MOVEMENT_final.pdf?dl=0
3/In each pillar, there is a 2 pager with a few quick references for further reading.
4/Sustainability takes on topics like data privacy, disinformation, ethics in AI, and Coronavirus response. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/politics/russia-disinformation-coronavirus.html
5/Equality looks at digital tax issues, the future of work, and competition/anti-trust. https://fortune.com/2020/07/15/apple-eu-ireland-tax-bill-anulled/
6/Security focuses on internet governance, data localization, splinternet, and cybersecurity. https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/data-localization-could-soon-be-the-worldwide-reality-11595948878871.html
7/Digital politics is shaping fundamental questions of how democracies work, where wealth is created, as well as the threats societies face. As Beth Simmons and others have argued, it needs more attention in our teaching and research. https://academic.oup.com/isq/article-abstract/55/3/589/1825516
8/ @ProfKMcNamara and I hope that this booklet offers one way to help mainstream these topics into syllabi. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vik4c6r4fzgb46v/DIGITAL%20DOUBLE%20MOVEMENT_final.pdf?dl=0
9/Also, happy to brainstorm other readings/point to amazing scholars doing work in this area. @NTusikov @dandrezner @mzak123 Kathleen Thelen, Pepper Culpepper, @LauraDeNardis @miltonmueller @henryfarrell
