Where technology meets government
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education
Taylor Owen, author of Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age, discusses the state’s attempt to enact foreign policy in the digital space and the resulting consequences. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/disruptive-power-9780199363865 Taylor Owen is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School. He was previously the Research Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of opencanada.org, an award-winning international affairs website, the Director of the International Relations and Digital Technology Projects, an international research project exploring the intersection of information technology and international affairs, and is the Research Director of the Munk Debates. He has previously held positions at Yale University, the London School of Economics and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. His PhD is from the University of Oxford, where he was a Trudeau Scholar. © Oxford University Press
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