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This book illustrates not only how surveillance debates play out in and through mediated discourses, but also how practices of surveillance inform the stories, everyday work and the ethics of journalists. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the journal,
Digital Journalism.
List of contents
Introduction: Journalism, citizenship and surveillance 1. Surveillance and the Structural Transformation of Privacy: Mapping the conceptual landscape of journalism in the post-Snowden era 2. Not Interesting Enough to be Followed by the NSA: An analysis of Dutch privacy attitudes 3.Cryptic Journalism: News reporting of encryption 4. A "Massive and Unprecedented Intrusion": A comparative analysis of American journalistic discourse surrounding three government surveillance scandals 5. Chilling Effect: Regional journalists' source protection and information security practice in the wake of the Snowden and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) revelations 6. "Comparative Silence" Still? Journalism, academia, and the Five Eyes of Edward Snowden 7. Framing Resistance Against Surveillance: Political communication of privacy advocacy groups in the "Stop Watching Us" and "The Day We Fight Back" campaigns 8. Surveillance Normalization and Critique: News coverage and journalists' discourses around the Snowden revelations
About the author
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is Professor at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture. She has published 9 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on journalism and citizenship.
Arne Hintz is Reader at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, co-Director of its Data Justice Lab and Director of MA Digital Media and Society. His research focuses on digital citizenship, media activism, digital policy and datafication.
Lina Dencik is Reader at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture and is Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab. She has published widely on digital media, resistance and the politics of data.
Lucy Bennett is a lecturer at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture. Her work on digital media appears in journals such as
New Media & Society,
Continuum and
Celebrity Studies.
Summary
This book illustrates not only how surveillance debates play out in and through mediated discourses, but also how practices of surveillance inform the stories, everyday work and the ethics of journalists. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the journal, Digital Journalism.
