‘Please Stay Frustrated!’: The Politicisation of Digital Technologies in the German NSA Debate

Violence Performed in Secret by State Agents: For an Alternative Problematisation of Intelligence Studies

“…The configuration of the bureaucratic practices of the services along the lines of their professional crafts have reinforced their transnational dimensions, uncontrolled by the national political leaders, who, faced with a fait accompli, preferred, at least for some of them, to cover up their services rather than to acknowledge their ignorance or at least the relative autonomy and room for manoeuvre that the coalitions of services have among themselves (Möller & Mollen 2017;Chadwick & Collister 2014). The enlargement of interdependencies has created new constraints for the actors, which have to play different (double) games, and especially the leaders of democratic governments are obliged to declare their indignation towards measures done by other states while reduplicating them abroad.…”

Localizing the Politics of Privacy in Communication and Media Research

“…In contrast, acting on media denotes practices that are aimed at shaping media infrastructure-that is, hacking (Kubitschko, 2017) or obfuscation strategies (Brunton & Nissenbaum, 2016). Acting on media also embraces the discursive level of action-that is, contributing to the discourses on surveillance technologies (Möller & Mollen, 2017). Thus, acting on media covers a whole repertoire of actions ranging from direct technical interventions to advocacy and educational activities.…”