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"Veillant panoptic assemblage": mutual watching and resistance to mass surveillance after Snowden
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Abstract The Snowden leaks indicate the extent, nature, and means of contemporary mass digital surveillance of citizens by their intelligence agencies and the role of public oversight mechanisms in holding intelligence agencies to account. As such, they form a rich case study on the interactions of "veillanc... mehr
The Snowden leaks indicate the extent, nature, and means of contemporary mass digital surveillance of citizens by their intelligence agencies and the role of public oversight mechanisms in holding intelligence agencies to account. As such, they form a rich case study on the interactions of "veillance" (mutual watching) involving citizens, journalists, intelligence agencies and corporations. While Surveillance Studies, Intelligence Studies and Journalism Studies have little to say on surveillance of citizens' data by intelligence agencies (and complicit surveillant corporations), they offer insights into the role of citizens and the press in holding power, and specifically the political-intelligence elite, to account. Attention to such public oversight mechanisms facilitates critical interrogation of issues of surveillant power, resistance and intelligence accountability. It directs attention to the veillant panoptic assemblage (an arrangement of profoundly unequal mutual watching, where citizens' watching of self and others is, through corporate channels of data flow, fed back into state surveillance of citizens). Finally, it enables evaluation of post-Snowden steps taken towards achieving an equiveillant panoptic assemblage (where, alongside state and corporate surveillance of citizens, the intelligence-power elite, to ensure its accountability, faces robust scrutiny and action from wider civil society).... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Überwachung; Digitale Medien; Zivilgesellschaft; Geheimdienst; Journalismus; Kontrolle; Bürger; Staat; Unternehmen
Klassifikation
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Kommunikationswissenschaften
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Medienpolitik, Informationspolitik, Medienrecht
Freie Schlagwörter
Rechenschaft
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 12-25
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 3 (2015) 3
Heftthema
Surveillance: critical analysis and current challenges (part II)
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)