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Outrage without consequences? Post-Snowden discourses and governmental practice in Germany
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Abstract In 2013 Edward Snowden's disclosures of mass surveillance performed by US intelligence agencies seriously irritated politicians and citizens around the globe. This holds particularly true for privacy-sensitive communities in Germany. However, while the public was outraged, intelligence and security ... view more
In 2013 Edward Snowden's disclosures of mass surveillance performed by US intelligence agencies seriously irritated politicians and citizens around the globe. This holds particularly true for privacy-sensitive communities in Germany. However, while the public was outraged, intelligence and security cooperation between the United States and Germany has been marked by continuity instead of disruption. The rather insubstantial debate over a so-called "No-Spy-Agreement" between the United States and Germany is just one telling example of the disconnect between public discourse and governmental action, as is the recent intelligence service regulation. This article considers why and where the "Snowden effect" has been lost on different discursive levels. We analyze and compare parliamentary and governmental discourses in the two years after the Snowden revelations by using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) to dissect the group-specific statements and interpretive schemes in 287 official documents by the German Bundestag, selected ministries and agencies within the policy subsystem. These will be analyzed in reference to actual governmental practice.... view less
Keywords
surveillance; data protection; Internet; government policy; Federal Republic of Germany; secret service; cooperation; United States of America; data security; discourse analysis
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Media Politics, Information Politics, Media Law
Free Keywords
Snowden, E.
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 7-16
Journal
Media and Communication, 5 (2017) 1
Issue topic
Post-Snowden internet policy
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed