Investigating the structural transformation of the public sphere should reckon with the secret
and its modes of organization. The expansion of secrecy effected by the infrastructures …

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for
secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become …

How does a reflexive scholarly practice matter for producing useful cybersecurity knowledge
and policy? We argue that staking relevance without engaging in reflexivity diminishes the …

This article foregrounds the role of secrets in creating, maintaining and disrupting intimacy.
We extend sociological theorising on secrecy by demonstrating the operative role of secrets …

This article introduces a collection of papers devoted to the study of secrecy in European
politics across a range of EU and national settings and policy domains. Academic interest in …

In cyberspace intelligence agencies, rather than militaries, are the most prominent security
actors. However, many cyber operations conducted by intelligence agencies are not …

This chapter presents the core argument and the proposal for both the negative conditions
for synthetic friends as well as some constructive elements. If a social machine fulfills the …

Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images
suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless …

In today's information society the citizen is ever more visible to government and to private
companies while paradoxically government itself becomes ever more secret. This …

Big Data analytics in national security, law enforcement and the fight against fraud can reap
great benefits for states, citizens and society but require extra safeguards to protect citizens' …