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Police technology, privacy, and the relationship between institutions and the people they serve.
Explore topicConnected infrastructure, national security, and the policy choices that shape our digital lives.
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The author set out to test how people relate to faith, including his own. He needed a method capable of telling him no.
LLM assistance by Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6.
Study method Nine-case comparative pilot · blind double-coding · cross-family adjudication · preregistered crisp-set QCA (N = 5)
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Study: The Terminal Experiment (passphrase required)How cyberspace became critical infrastructure, then a domain of power, and what four countries do about it.
LLM assistance by Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra.
Study method Structured-focused comparative case study · two-cycle qualitative coding · thematic analysis
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Study: Advancing U.S. Cyberspace Policies in the Age of AI and Web 3.0A Florida case study asks how police technology, unconscious bias, and public trust intersect—and what citizens can ask about the tools used in their name.
LLM assistance by Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra.
Study method Qualitative case study · purposive anonymous survey · qualitative coding · content analysis
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Study: Unconscious Bias in Law Enforcement TechnologyFinishing a question that cannot pay you back
One researcher and seven role-separated AI model variants carry a governed inquiry about faith traditions to a defensible null. The record makes provenance, disagreement, review, and repair inspectable without claiming empirical validation or superiority.
Scott W. Waddell, D.S.I.
Method Nine-case comparative pilot · blind double-coding · cross-family adjudication · preregistered crisp-set QCA (N = 5)
Research: 2026
Explainer: The Question You Cannot Ask YourselfA comparative case study on securing United States national security interests
A comparison of Estonia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States examines how cyberspace policy can adapt to AI and Web 3.0 while safeguarding critical infrastructure. Its lessons for U.S. policy are context-specific.
Scott W. Waddell, D.S.I.
Method Structured-focused comparative case study · two-cycle qualitative coding · thematic analysis
Research: 2025
Explainer: The Battleground You Live InA Florida case study of emerging technologies, citizen security, and privacy
Trei McMullen’s qualitative case study examines technology, privacy, and public trust through anonymous civilian and officer surveys and analysis of executive statements. Its small, purposive sample limits how widely the findings can be applied.
Method Qualitative case study · purposive anonymous survey · qualitative coding · content analysis
Research: 2025 · Published on SIR:
Explainer: The Officers Said NoA single-host audio adaptation of the cyberspace-policy study, exploring critical infrastructure, national security, and the policy choices of four countries. Jordan narrates using a synthetic voice.
Study method Structured-focused comparative case study · two-cycle qualitative coding · thematic analysis
Script-derived transcript; pending audio verification.
Research: 2025
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