Abstract

This article raises awareness on the value of epistemic diversity for democratic intelligence governance by highlighting the role of academia. Specifically, it argues that the expertise of critically engaged scholars can play a leading role in challenging the expert discourse of intelligence agencies in the age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence proliferation. The article examines how the intelligence expert discourse is constructed in the post-Snowden landscape in the United Kingdom by investigating the public communication strategies of Government Communications Headquarters. Driven by a normative rhetoric centered on transparency, the agency’s unprecedented steps toward public engagement are traced through an analysis of key policy documents, official statements, and a museum exhibition. In the ensuing, and novel, context of openness and widespread discursivity around controversial technologies and practices employed by intelligence agencies, critically engaged academia can bring a much-needed diversity of perspective to an increasingly complex and vital policy area in contemporary democratic societies.

摘要

本文通过强调学术界的作用，提高了人们对民主情报治理认知多样性价值的认识。具体来说，它认为，在大数据和人工智能扩散时代，批判性学者的专业知识可以在挑战情报机构的专家话语方面发挥主导作用。本文通过调查政府通讯总部的公共传播策略，探讨了斯诺登后英国情报专家话语的构建方式。在以透明度为中心的规范言论的推动下，该机构在公众参与方面采取了前所未有的举措，通过对关键政策文件、官方声明和博物馆展览的分析来追踪。在接下来的小说中，