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From Protest to Surveillance – The Political Rationality of Mobile Media: Modalities of Neoliberalism - Couverture rigide

Leistert, Oliver

 
9783631643136: From Protest to Surveillance – The Political Rationality of Mobile Media: Modalities of Neoliberalism
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ISBN 10 : 3631643136 ISBN 13 : 9783631643136
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2013

Synopsis

The book won the Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize 2014. The book argues that the mobile as a political technology in a broad sense facilitates the global export of the Western concept of individuality. This empowers those subjectivities and mindsets which can adapt to the communication regime of ubiquitous connectivity. Exemplifying two focal points – the use in protests and the surveillance of mobile phones – the book traces political trajectories of mobile phones, just as it provides deep insights into the actual practice of mobile phone use by activists and their surveillance. 50 semi-structured interviews with activists from countries including Brazil, India, Pakistan and Mexico offer a detailed and profound discussion of mobile phone success and failures in different struggles for justice. By situating mobile phone mass dissemination within a political rationality of neoliberalism and its political technology of governmentality, it shows how sovereign rule updates to catch up with the subject's empowerment through mobile phones. The limits of mobile phone impact on activism are examined, and how it compromises its users when new sovereign means such as data retention or silent SMS surveillance are invoked.

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À propos de l'auteur

Oliver Leistert, Dr. phil., has been researching media activism and surveillance for many years. His research interests include governmentality studies, media theory, digital methods, surveillance studies, social media and empirical research.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3631643136
ISBN 13 
9783631643136
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
289
Coordonnées du fabricant
Peter Lang Group AG
https://www.peterlang.com/

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