From Madness to Wisdom: Intelligence and the Digital Crowd

Author(s): Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Jäger Mark Daniel
Editor(s): Loch K. Johnson, Mark Phythian
Journal Title: Intelligence and National Security
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Pages: 15
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Place: London

While the 'crowd’, as a special manifestation of ‘the public’, presents new challenges it also enables new forms of intelligence practices. This new journal article by Mark Daniel Jäger and Myriam Dunn Cavelty sheds light on the complexity and sensitivity of crowd-based intelligence in security governance. More specifically, the article traces how crowds in their various forms relate to how security agents approach them in their intelligence practices.

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