Europe and the Global Information Society Revisited: Developing a Network of Scholars and Agenda for Social Science Research on Cyber Security

Type: 
Workshop
Audience: 
Private
Address: 
Central European University
Academic Area: 
Civil Society and Technology
Digital Rights, Privacy and Data Protection
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 9:00am
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Date: 
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 9:00am to Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 6:00pm

The CMCS hosted a strategic workshop on cyber security, supported by the European Science Foundation, which brought together over two dozen experts from across Europe and the US from universities, intergovernmental organizations and research institutes.

The workshop aimed to help develop a more systematic understanding of the interplay between technological innovations and geopolitical conditions, and its impact on cyber security from a social science perspective. It sets out to map the state of analysis around specific questions in the field of cyber security studies, such as: 

  • How are different organizations (states, institutions. particular alliances and interest groups) within the European Union (EU) and elsewhere defining responses to cyber security? 
  • What are the emerging competing frameworks and narratives of cyber security threats and intervention? 
  • How can institutional analysis be brought to bear to explain and improve approaches to state entities dealing with these questions?