Technology and Politics in Tunisia and Iran: Deep Packet Surveillance

Parsons, Christopher

Technology and Politics in Tunisia and Iran: Deep Packet Surveillance

dc.contributor.author	Parsons, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-09T23:25:08Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-09T23:25:08Z
dc.date.copyright	2011	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-03-23
dc.description	Christopher Parsons is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on how privacy is affected by digitally mediated surveillance, and the normative implications that such surveillance has in (and on) contemporary Western political systems. His dissertation, titled “What’s Driving Deep Packet Inspection? Motivations, Regulations, and Public Involvement in Telecommunications Regulatory Processes,” draws together Internet governance, traditional social sciences, and critical digital studies literatures to provide a holistic accounting of deep packet inspection’s powerful and plastic control-based processes. Christopher has published in CTheory, has a forthcoming publication in M. Moll’s and L. R. Shade’s (eds.) Establishing an Election Connection: Telecom Policy, and a forthcoming co-authored publication in W. Dutton’s (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Faced with growing unrest that is (at least in part) facilitated by digital communications, repressive nation-states have integrated powerful new surveillance systems into the depths of their nations’ communications infrastructures. In this presentation, Christopher Parsons first discusses the capabilities of a technology, deep packet inspection, which is used to survey, analyze, and modify communications in real-time. He then discusses the composition of the Iranian and Tunisian telecommunications infrastructure, outlining how deep packet inspection is used to monitor, block, and subvert encrypted and private communications. The presentation concludes with a brief reflection on how this same technology is deployed in the West, with a focus on how we might identify key actors, motivations, and drivers of the technology in our own network ecologies.	en_US
dc.description.reviewstatus	Reviewed	en_US
dc.description.scholarlevel	Graduate	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Parsons, Christopher. "Technology and Politics in Tunisia and Iran: Deep Packet Surveillance." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 23 March 2011. Presentation.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://pactac.net/2011/03/technology-and-politics-in-tunisia-and-iran-deep-packet-surveillance/
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6760
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/	*
dc.subject	Tunisia
dc.subject	Iran
dc.subject	Deep Packet Surveillance
dc.subject	telecommunications infrastructure
dc.subject	private communication
dc.subject	communication monitoring
dc.subject	surveillance systems
dc.subject	Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC)
dc.subject.department	Department of Political Science
dc.title	Technology and Politics in Tunisia and Iran: Deep Packet Surveillance	en_US
dc.type	Video	en_US