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The second annual MEI Cyber Conference will investigate the radical changes that cyberspace has brought to regional society and interstate relations in the Middle East. New avenues for self-expression, surveillance, commerce, criminality, warfare, and political mobilization are all converging on societies in significant states of transition.
Journalists and digital rights advocates have long drawn attention to the unequal access and experience of Palestinians and Palestinian narratives on social media platforms, with repeated reports of unjustified takedowns, account suspensions, and censorship of certain types of content online regularly reported. In the midst of a new wave of violence and conflict in Gaza and the Palestinian Occupied Territories this month, the topic of free speech online, and the role of social media in meditating the Israel-Palestine relationship, has begun to gain more international attention.
Cyber charter schools may have contributed to a hard road ahead for traditional, brick and mortar public schools in Monroe County.
Cyber charter schools may have contributed to a hard road ahead for traditional, brick and mortar public schools in Monroe County.
Thomas LoCoco Blaubach is a Graduate Fellow with the Cyber Program at MEI, and a MA Candidate at the University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations. He received his B.A. in International Studies and Political Science, with certificates in Middle Eastern and African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include 5G technologies in the context of geostrategic competition and regime use in the Middle East.