A sociosemiotic interpretation of cybersecurity in U.S. legislative discourse

Cheng, Le; Pei, Jiamin; Danesi, Marcel

doi:10.1080/10350330.2019.1587843

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“…In its emphasis on defending democracy and securing truth, contemporary cybersecurity has become increasingly 'human centric' (Cheng et al, 2019). While the status of the individual as an object of cybersecurity has been debated in existing scholarship (Carr, 2016;Collier, 2018;Hansen and Nissenbaum, 2009), in this penultimate subsection I argue that cybersecurity's politics of truth have produced a corresponding 'subject of cybersecurity' for whom an 'obligation to know' (Foucault, 2014a: 256;2014b: 93; see also Legg, 2016Legg, , 2019 becomes the basis of secure political subjectivity.…”

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Cybersecurity, race, and the politics of truth

Whyte

2022

Security Dialogue

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This article explores the racial politics underwriting cybersecurity’s recent human turn toward the issues of online disinformation and ‘foreign influence’ in US politics. Through a case study of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, this article’s first half considers how contemporary cybersecurity has produced ‘racial division’ as an object of security by framing the BLM movement as a geopolitical vulnerability open to foreign manipulation through social media. In its emphasis on the political protest as a site of insecurity, I argue that contemporary cybersecurity has widened its traditional spatiality ‘beyond the computer’. In the article’s second half, I argue that the racialization of cybersecurity has underwritten a politics of truth ultimately concerned less with parsing true from false, and more with defining the boundaries of secure political knowledge and communication. I argue that contemporary cybersecurity has produced an idealized subject for whom an obligation to possess contingent forms of knowledge becomes a condition of secure political subjectivity. I conclude with a critique of contemporary cybersecurity’s tendency to portray dissident political movements like BLM as ignorant or disinformed.

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Cybersecurity, race, and the politics of truth

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2022

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Yadong Cui (2020): Artificial Intelligence and Judicial Modernization

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Xie

2020

Int J Semiot Law

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Mapping terminological variation and ideology in data protection laws

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Cheng

2020

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This study aims to deal with the relationship between terminological variation and ideology by examining the system of terminology and the defined individual terms in data protection legislation. With two self-compiled corpora incorporating data protection laws in the United States and the European Union respectively, we adopt a corpus-assisted approach as an effective toolkit to generate a general profile of the system of legal terminology on the one hand and identify the defined legal terms in the two corpora on the other. This study, based on Van Dijk’s (1998) multidisciplinary approach to ideology, seeks to unravel the underlying ideological configurations behind the variation of legal terminology. The findings show that one plausible – though certainly not definitive – interpretation of the variation in legal terminology in the data protection domain lies in the distinct ideological stances imposed by such discourse communities as lawmakers, judges as well as the president and the party in power. The ideological investigation of terminology is a significant aspect of the study of variation phenomena. It is argued that the ideologically variable slants and historical experiences, as the contextual constraints on the ideological beliefs, may contribute to accounting for the spatial and temporal variation of legal terminology.

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A sociosemiotic interpretation of cybersecurity in U.S. legislative discourse

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

Cybersecurity, race, and the politics of truth

Cybersecurity, race, and the politics of truth

Yadong Cui (2020): Artificial Intelligence and Judicial Modernization

Mapping terminological variation and ideology in data protection laws

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