The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its Impacts on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan
The study is intended to describe the newly emerging wave of cyber security threats under the conception of Surveillance Capitalism, which was initially defined by a Harvard university professor, Shoshana Zuboff. The idea of Zuboff emphasizes the use of various formats of data collected from different android software applications that can help regulate the political, social, and economic orientations of the targeted nations. The relevance of Surveillance Capitalism in the nuclearized subcontinent portrays a different picture of the South Asian strategic environment in which New Delhi and Islamabad are the archival nations. The Indian offensive policies obsessed with AntiPakistani behavior have launched a massive campaign on the mainstream social media platforms generally, and Twitter particularly. The use of countless fake social media accounts containing inaccurately maintained material for propagating purposes has become a major offensive tool of New Delhiagainst Islamabad. The Indian strategic community, preoccupied with the critical elements of internal Pakistan issues, is trying to mislead social media users by spreading manipulating facts about the critical nature of civil-military relations in Pakistan. Therefore, the paper's central theme revolves around the strategic dimension of Zuboff's concept of Surveillance Capitalism and its application to the decades-long Pakistan-India rivalry under the shadows of social media accounts generally and Twitter particularly.
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Civil-Military, Capitalism, Age of Surveillance, Pakistan, Cyber Security
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(1) Amna Munawar Khan
M. Phil Scholar, Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Sakeena
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Women University Swabi, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Mariam Asif
Lecturer, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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APA : Khan, A. M., Sakeena., & Asif, M. (2022). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its Impacts on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan. Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VII(II), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2022(VII-II).07
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CHICAGO : Khan, Amna Munawar, Sakeena, and Mariam Asif. 2022. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its Impacts on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VII (II): 53-60 doi: 10.31703/gsssr.2022(VII-II).07
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HARVARD : KHAN, A. M., SAKEENA. & ASIF, M. 2022. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its Impacts on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan. Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VII, 53-60.
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MHRA : Khan, Amna Munawar, Sakeena, and Mariam Asif. 2022. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its Impacts on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VII: 53-60
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MLA : Khan, Amna Munawar, Sakeena, and Mariam Asif. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its Impacts on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VII.II (2022): 53-60 Print.
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OXFORD : Khan, Amna Munawar, Sakeena, , and Asif, Mariam (2022), "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its Impacts on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan", Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VII (II), 53-60
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TURABIAN : Khan, Amna Munawar, Sakeena, and Mariam Asif. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and its Impacts on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review VII, no. II (2022): 53-60. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2022(VII-II).07