Autonomous journalists and anonymous politicians? - Norwegian media coverage of the NSA surveillance and the «Snowden Affair»

Eide, Elisabeth; Lånkan, Kjersti Blehr

doi:10.18261/issn.0805-9535-2016-03-04

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“…First, coverage of surveillance usually conveyed two competing stances -supportive or critical -with slight (Barnard-Wills, 2011) or definite (Kroener, 2013;McCahill, 2014) predominance of the supportive stance. Far fewer studies found the critical stance to be slightly (Marciano, 2019b) or significantly more predominant (Eide and Lånkan, 2016). Second, media coverage of surveillance practices and policies tended to be superficial (Lischka, 2017), generally overlooking the profound social and ethical implications of these practices (Kroener, 2013) while decontextualizing them through episodic rather than thematic framing (Greenberg and Hier, 2009).…”

Section: Media Coverage Of Surveillance: Superficial Supportive and Episodicmentioning

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“…Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified information from the US National Security Agency emerged as a significant juncture in this development: prior to this, only a few studies had examined media representations of surveillance (Barnard-Wills, 2011; Greenberg and Hier, 2009); the majority were published afterwards. Most of these studies focused on UK media (Barnard-Wills, 2011; Branum and Charteris-Black, 2015; Kroener, 2013; Lischka, 2017; Salter, 2015; Wahl-Jorgensen et al, 2017), and several examined coverage in other countries such as New Zealand (Kuehn, 2018), Norway (Eide and Lånkan, 2016), Finland (Tiainen, 2017), and Germany (Möllers and Hälterlein, 2013).…”

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Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis

Marciano

Yadlin

2021

Media, Culture & Society

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Israel, traditionally known as a nation-in-arms, has been undergoing processes of securitization and militarization from its inception to the present day. While several countries have employed surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of coronavirus, Israel was the only country in the world to authorize its internal security agency to track citizens’ cellphones to deal with this civil-medical crisis. Employing a reflexive thematic analysis to news media outlets, this study examined coverage of Israel Security Agency (ISA) surveillance by four leading Israeli news sites, inquiring into the socio-cultural imageries, and motifs that informed their reports. While two of the sites were mostly supportive and the other two were critical, the coverage as a whole was informed by national security imageries reminiscent of Israel’s nation-in-arms tradition. Our discussion contextualizes these findings within a three-decade tension that has prevailed in Israeli society and culture between securitization/militarization and democratization/demilitarization.

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Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis

Marciano

Yadlin

2021

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Communication and surveillance scholars have been studying media coverage of surveillance in the past two decades. Most of these studies focused on United Kingdom media ( Barnard-Wills, 2011 ; Kroener, 2013 ; Lischka, 2017 ; Wahl-Jorgensen et al, 2017 ), while several others examined coverage in other countries such as Finland ( Tiainen, 2017 ), Norway ( Eide & Lånkan, 2016 ), New Zealand ( Kuehn, 2018 ), Germany ( Möllers & Hälterlein, 2013 ), and Israel ( Marciano, 2019 ). This global map is particularly important for the international scape, which positions Israel’s surveillance in relation to other countries.…”

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COVID-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control

Yadlin

Marciano

2021

Mobile Media & Communication

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In March 2020, Israel passed emergency regulations authorizing its internal security agency to track citizens’ mobile phone geolocations in order to tackle the spread of COVID-19. This unprecedented surveillance enterprise attracted extensive media attention and sparked a vigorous public debate regarding technology and democratic values such as privacy, mobility, and control. This article examines press coverage of Israel’s surveillance of its citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic by four leading news sites to identify and map the frames that informed their reports. Based on a thematic analysis, our findings point to supportive and critical constructions of mobile phone location-tracking and organize them within two scapes: personal; and international. These attest to the collective imagining of intimacies and public life, respectively. We draw on the case study to articulate mobile phones as devices that reduce movement into manageable mapped information and individuals into controllable data. Mobile phone location-tracking during the COVID-19 pandemic is understood as turning mobility into order and control.

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“…Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/12/heres-everything-we-know-about-prism-to-date/?utm_term=.a6903843234b Accessed 14.07.2018 that the Norwegian government pressures the U.S. on these issues. This does not seem to be the case, and politicians have in general been reluctant to take part in public discussions of the Snowden revelations (Eide & Lånkan, 2016).…”

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Investigative Journalism on Oil, Gas and Mining: Has Donor-Driven Use of Digital Technology Made a Difference?

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Powell²

2019

Making Transparency Possible

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Autonomous journalists and anonymous politicians? - Norwegian media coverage of the NSA surveillance and the «Snowden Affair»

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis

Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis

COVID-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control

Investigative Journalism on Oil, Gas and Mining: Has Donor-Driven Use of Digital Technology Made a Difference?

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