Author Archives: Christopher

About Christopher

Christopher is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. He is currently attending to a particular set of technologies that facilitate digitally mediated surveillance, including Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), behavioral advertising, and mobile devices. He thinks through how these technologies influence citizens in their decision to openly express themselves or engage in self-censoring behavior on a regular basis.

Publications in OpenMedia’s ‘Casting an Open Net’

For the past several months I’ve been working away at a series of ‘traditional’ publication-type writings. One of those pieces included major sections of OpenMedia.ca’s report that was released today, entitled “Casting an Open Net: A Leading Edge Approach to … Continue reading

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Review: Network Nation – Inventing American Telecommunications

So, who would I recommend this book to? Obviously, scholars in the field will find this book incredibly profitable. Given today’s tumultuous politics of telecommunications in North America the book offers advocates, members of the public, and policy makers a concise history of what went on in the preceding two centuries of telecommunications regulation. Continue reading

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Released: Literature Review of Deep Packet Inspection

The abstract for my recently completed literature review of deep packet inspection, as well as a link to download the .pdf version of the review. Continue reading

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Security, Hierarchy, and Networked Governance

The capacity for the Internet to route around damage and censorship is dependent on there being multiple pathways for data to be routed. What happens when there are incredibly few pathways, and when many of the existing paths contain hidden traps that compromise communications security and privacy? Continue reading

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