93: Professor Jane Duncan, Head of Journalism, Film and TV, University of Johannesburg

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Professor Jane Duncan is the Head of the Department of Journalism, Film and TV at the University of Johannesburg. She is one of the founders of the Media Policy and Democracy Project and the author of several books inluding "The Rise of the Securocrats" which looks at the growing role of the security services in government policy in South Africa. She has also written extensively about the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. She is a skeptic.
We discussed a number of issues including the privatisation of public surveillance, surveillance capitalism in general and the gap between policy and technology.
Prof Duncan is also keen that South African plays a more active role in spreading our freedoms to the rest of the world to ensure an internet that is open and accessible to all the citizens of the world.
Read more about the Media Policy and Democracy Project here.
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