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Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security

Sayı: “MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE 22 Aralık 2025
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Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security

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In the digital age, cybersecurity has evolved from merely a practice of protecting information systems into one of the fundamental determinants of political authority, governance, and social order. Initially approached as a technical necessity, information security today is directly linked to the regulation of behaviors, the surveillance of digital citizens, and the control of national and global information flows. This study critically examines how cybersecurity discourses are constructed, circulated, and employed to legitimize power relations. Within the framework of critical security studies and Foucault’s theory of power–discourse, it analyzes how the concept of “cyber threat” is framed as an existential danger and how this framing legitimizes extraordinary security measures by states.A qualitative discourse analysis of state strategy documents, national cybersecurity policies, and media narratives reveals that cybersecurity discourses often serve a “securitizing” function. In this process, technical risks are transformed into social fears, thereby rationalizing increased surveillance, control, and regulatory interventions in digital domains. Thus, cybersecurity becomes not merely a tool of protection but also a language of power that shapes social decisions about who constitutes a threat and who is deemed worthy of protection.The findings indicate that cybersecurity goes beyond the goal of safeguarding digital infrastructures, reproducing new forms of control and asymmetric power structures in contemporary societies. The relationship between security, information, and governance constitutes the fundamental dynamic of constructing a new “technopolitical order” in the digital age.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Siyasal İletişim

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

22 Aralık 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

6 Kasım 2025

Kabul Tarihi

12 Aralık 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Sayı: “MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE

Kaynak Göster

APA
Mammadov, R. (2025). Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security. ASSAM Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi, “MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE, 111-121. https://doi.org/10.58724/assam.1818761
AMA
1.Mammadov R. Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security. ASSAM-UHAD. 2025;(“MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE):111-121. doi:10.58724/assam.1818761
Chicago
Mammadov, Rashad. 2025. “Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security”. ASSAM Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi, sy “MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE: 111-21. https://doi.org/10.58724/assam.1818761.
EndNote
Mammadov R (01 Aralık 2025) Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security. ASSAM Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi “MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE 111–121.
IEEE
[1]R. Mammadov, “Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security”, ASSAM-UHAD, sy “MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE, ss. 111–121, Ara. 2025, doi: 10.58724/assam.1818761.
ISNAD
Mammadov, Rashad. “Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security”. ASSAM Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi. “MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE (01 Aralık 2025): 111-121. https://doi.org/10.58724/assam.1818761.
JAMA
1.Mammadov R. Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security. ASSAM-UHAD. 2025;:111–121.
MLA
Mammadov, Rashad. “Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security”. ASSAM Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi, sy “MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE, Aralık 2025, ss. 111-2, doi:10.58724/assam.1818761.
Vancouver
1.Rashad Mammadov. Cybersecurity Discourses and Social Power Relations: The Political and Strategic Dimensions of Digital Security. ASSAM-UHAD. 01 Aralık 2025;(“MASS COMMUNICATION" SPECIAL ISSUE):111-2. doi:10.58724/assam.1818761

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