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About Giovanni Navarria

Giovanni Navarria has a PhD in Politics from the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), the University of Westminster, London. His interests include the public sphere, civil society, group theory, social networks, activism, China and the network society. His website here.

Articles by Giovanni Navarria

Thursday 22nd April

A movie Gordon Brown might not like to watch

The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski’s latest movie is a well-crafted and well-acted thriller adapted from a book by Robert Harris, with a political twist that might even give Gordon Brown an extra shiver on the eve of the general election
Thursday 9th February

E-government: who controls the controllers?

The promise of e-government is a transparent, accessible, efficient state in a new partnership with its citizens. But, asks Giovanni Navarria, could it be the model of an invisible model of political control?
Wednesday 19th October

The future of dissent: hacking Chinese censorship

Should we despair at the power of an authoritarian regime to censor the most democratic force of our time? Giovanni Navarria sees a ray of hope burst through the clouds hanging over Chinese netizens.
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