‘Everywhere Surveillance’: Global Surveillance Regimes as Techno-Securitization

Petit, Patrick

doi:10.1080/09505431.2019.1586866

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“…State-corporate surveillance certainly raises severe concerns about the invasion of privacy (Cayford & Pieters, 2018). Surveillance may have become a normalized key condition of living in a modern "techno-securitized society", as a way to ensure collective security (Bennett, 2011;Bernal, 2016;Clark, 2016;Petit, 2020). Yet at the same time, individuals' privacy concerns due to the introduction of ever more privacy-intrusive technologies are not unwarranted.…”

Section: George Orwell 1984mentioning

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“…Traditionally, a nation-state's intelligence activities include "strategic intelligence" aimed at foreign governments to comprehend possible threats, as well as "tactical operations" targeted at specific individuals or groups of interest (Cayford & Pieters, 2018). However, recent state-led efforts to secure its citizens against global threats such as terrorism and espionage have turned almost anyone into a potential threat, and therefore likewise into a possible target of surveillance technologies (Petit, 2020). This has affected civil rights and basic freedoms (Milanovic, 2015), as exemplified by U.S. border agents "rightfully" searching travelers' smart phones, and requests by intelligence agencies for technology firms to install backdoors to encrypted services for the sake of national security.…”

Section: Concerns About Digital Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perspectives from Higher Education: Applied Sciences University Teachers on the Digitalization of the Bioeconomy : The Acceptance of Digital Surveillance in an Age of Big Data

Westerlund¹,

Isabelle²,

Leminen³

2021

TIM Review

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Perspectives from Higher Education: Applied Sciences University Teachers on the Digitalization of the Bioeconomy : The Acceptance of Digital Surveillance in an Age of Big Data

Westerlund¹,

Isabelle²,

Leminen³

2021

TIM Review

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News media representation on EU immigration before Brexit: the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case

Martins

2021

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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A higher level of mobility of people has marked the European Union (EU), with immigrants moving from one place to another, every year, looking for a better quality of life, often fleeing from war and poverty. In the wake of enlargement of the European Union, the United Kingdom (UK) experienced high inward migration. One of the main focuses of UK media coverage was immigration from Eastern European countries. The UK referendum on Brexit on 23 June 2016, was followed by an increase in hate crimes linked to migration issues and, subsequently, a media apparatus of toxic discourse and fear of the criminal ‘Other’. This paper aims to reveal how newspaper articles and personal comments written in response to these articles, represented creative and media-driven anxieties about ‘opening’ borders in the EU. The empirical sample builds on news media coverage of the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case, published in two UK newspapers—the Daily Mail and The Independent. Based on critical surveillance studies and cultural media studies, I elaborate on the notion of moral panic, dramatised by the media, which mobilises specific compositions of ‘otherness’ by constructing suspicion and criminalising inequality by particular social and ethnic groups and nationalities. I argue that the media portrays the dramatisation of transnational narratives of risk and (in)security, which redraws territorial borders and (re)define Britain’s global identity. The analysis shows how the news media in the Brexit vote continually raised and legitimised awareness related to the migration as a vehicle that enables the ‘folk-devil’ to cross borders. This context postulates an ideology that converges on a relationship of intransigence and criminal convictions, in the context of a politics of inclusion and exclusion. I conclude by emphasising how the media intersects different social and geographical spaces in which migration takes place. Media-constructed categories of suspicion targets have been previously created and ‘suspect communities’ have already been socially accepted, thereby confirming and reshaping understandings of their identities and communities.

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Security politics and techno-securitisation in Star Wars: from the Fall of the Jedi to the Reign of the Empire

Atkinson

2022

Contemporary Social Science

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‘Everywhere Surveillance’: Global Surveillance Regimes as Techno-Securitization

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Perspectives from Higher Education: Applied Sciences University Teachers on the Digitalization of the Bioeconomy : The Acceptance of Digital Surveillance in an Age of Big Data

Perspectives from Higher Education: Applied Sciences University Teachers on the Digitalization of the Bioeconomy : The Acceptance of Digital Surveillance in an Age of Big Data

News media representation on EU immigration before Brexit: the ‘Euro-Ripper’ case

Security politics and techno-securitisation in Star Wars: from the Fall of the Jedi to the Reign of the Empire

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