Tag: Nils B. Weidmann

Who are these actors and what are the consequences of their cyberattacks? These are some of the questions that Professor Nils Weidmann and his research group "Communication, Networks and Contention" at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz intend to address through their German Research Foundation (DFG) funded research project entitled "A New Political Weapon? To successfully carry out their research, Professor Nils Weidmann and his project group members will collaborate with experts in Internet measurement from the University of California, San Diego, USA. Nils Weidmann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz and was previously a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg - an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Konstanz. Nils Weidmann's project "A New Political Weapon? Cyberattacks in Non-Democratic Regimes" will be funded by the DFG with EUR 430,000 for three years beginning on 1 September 2018. Cyberattacks in Non-Democratic Regimes" receives DFG funding. - Principal investigator Professor Nils Weidmann and his research group "Communication, Networks and Contention" will collaborate with experts from the University of California, San Diego, USA. - Project will map global patterns of cyberattacks, evaluate the relationship between these attacks and more traditional forms of contention, and identify the consequences of the attacks. by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.