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Governing Surveillance Infrastructure: as performed in the Snowden Documents
Abstract Governing Surveillance Infrastructure is a study that discusses how governance and surveillance are performed in the Snowden documents. This thesis is performed in the intersection between ‘Surveillance Studies’ and ‘Science and Technology Studies’ (STS), with the aim to contribute to the discussion... mehr
Governing Surveillance Infrastructure is a study that discusses how governance and surveillance are performed in the Snowden documents. This thesis is performed in the intersection between ‘Surveillance Studies’ and ‘Science and Technology Studies’ (STS), with the aim to contribute to the discussions within the field of ‘Surveillance Studies’. In an ongoing debate about how surveillance affects security and our privacy this thesis takes a step away from this dominating narrative and discusses the governing mechanisms of this surveillance infrastructure as performed in the Snowden documents. Avoiding the use of the traditional metaphors used to study surveillance this study is proposing that understanding governance mechanisms enable us to broaden how surveillance can be understood and studied. By identifying and discussing the governance mechanisms as performed in the Snowden documents, I will not only be able to understand how they function in this particular setting. It will also enable me to introduce a way to study surveillance through governance that contributes to a more nuanced way of understanding how surveillance is performed today.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Behörde; Kommunikationstechnologie; Datengewinnung; Geheimdienst; EDV-Programm; Organisationsstruktur; Organisationsprinzip; Datenschutz; Daten; Deleuze, G.; politische Steuerung; Observation; Governance; USA; Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie; Informationstechnologie; Foucault, M.; Klassifikation; Spionage; Analyse
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Freie Schlagwörter
NSA; United States National Security Agency; Surveillance Studies; Science and Technology Studies; Surveillance; Edward Snowden; Infrastructure; Panopticon; Snowden Digital Surveillance Archive
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Erscheinungsort
Copenhagen
Seitenangabe
141 S.
Status
nicht begutachtet