From Madness to Wisdom: Intelligence and the Digital Crowd

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. While the 'crowd’, as a special manifestation of ‘the public’, presents new challenges it also enables new forms of intelligence practices. The article traces how crowds in their various forms relate to how security agents approach them in their intelligence practices.