The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates an appetite to reflect upon the new challenges that digital technologies have brought to the scholarly profession. This forum’s inspiration was a roundtable discussion at the 2017 International Studies Association Annual Convention, where many of the forum authors agreed on the need for critical debate about the effects of online surveillance and censorship techniques on scholarship. This forum contains five critiques regarding our digitized infrastructures, datafied institutions, mercenary corporations, exploitative academic platforms, and insecure online practices. Together, this unique collection of articles contributes to the research on academic freedom and helps to frame the analysis of the neoliberal higher education sector, the surveillance practices that students and staff encounter, and the growing necessity to improve our “digital hygiene.”

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学术界的在线监视，审查和加密

互联网和数字技术已成为学术界不可缺少的一部分。一个没有电子邮件，搜索引擎和在线数据库的世界几乎是不可想象的。然而，在这个数字依赖的时代，该学院几乎没有表现出反省数字技术给学术界带来的新挑战的欲望。该论坛的灵感来自2017年国际研究协会年度大会的一次圆桌讨论，该论坛的许多作者都同意有必要就在线监控和审查技术对奖学金的影响进行批判性辩论。该论坛包含五种批评，涉及我们的数字化基础设施，数据化机构，雇佣军，剥削性学术平台和不安全的在线实践。一起，