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Intersectional Powers of Digital Repression: How Activists are Digitally Watched, Charged, and Stigmatized in Thailand
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Abstract This article examines how digital repression tactics - surveillance, prosecution against online activists, and influence campaigns - work in tandem to contain dissent. I applied a mechanism-based approach to analyze interactive patterns of digital repression amidst Thailand's 2020-2021 protests. The... mehr
This article examines how digital repression tactics - surveillance, prosecution against online activists, and influence campaigns - work in tandem to contain dissent. I applied a mechanism-based approach to analyze interactive patterns of digital repression amidst Thailand's 2020-2021 protests. These were multidirectional. First, digital surveillance provided the intelligence necessary for targeting key dissidents with charges for their online activism. Second, data gathered through surveillance sharpened narratives of proregime cyber troops to stigmatize protesters. Third, smear campaigns gave a pretext for lawsuits against protesters painted as a national security threat. I argue that these mechanisms leverage and reinforce the intersection of panoptic, punitive and framing powers underpinning digital repression, with panoptic power constituting the bedrock. This article speaks to broader studies on social movement repression: Digital repression allows states to deter and incapacitate movements while avoiding backlashes caused by overt crackdown.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Thailand; Internet; Digitale Medien; Unterdrückung; Repression; Kontrolle; Überwachung; Opposition; Kriminalisierung; Staatsgewalt; Manipulation; Meinung; Missbrauch; Macht; Widerstand; soziale Bewegung; Südostasien
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
Online; Politischer Widerstand; soziale Ausgrenzung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2024
Seitenangabe
S. 1611-1633
Zeitschriftentitel
International Journal of Communication, 18 (2024)
ISSN
1932-8036
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0