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Digital Surveillance in Africa
Power, Agency, and Rights

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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In this open-access third volume of Bloomsbury''s Digital Africa series, a broad range of African and European scholars and practitioners map the development, procurement and (mis)use of the ever-expanding suite of digital surveillance and policing technologies across the continent. Drawing on the empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated research of the African Digital Rights Network, this book examines how public and private actors in Africa use spyware, mobile phone extraction, biometric and face recognition systems, and other technologies for smart-city and other social, and social-control, applications. Eight chapters examine eight African countries, and each of these begins with a thorough political history of the nature of surveillance there under colonial and post-liberation political settlements. This enables new analyses of the socio-cultural, political, and economic drivers and characteristics of contemporary digital surveillance in each country, all of which ultimately leads to concrete policy recommendations at local, national, and international levels. For its empirical richness and breadth, as well as its theoretical sophistication, Digital Surveillance in Africa is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary African studies, and it is of keen interest to anyone concerned with how digital surveillance affects everyday lives across the world. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

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Con la collaborazione di Tony Roberts (Editore), Admire Mare (Editore)
Autori Tony Roberts, Admire Mare
Editore Zed Books
 
Lingue Inglese
Contenuto Libro
Forma del prodotto Copertina rigida
Data pubblicazione 15.05.2025
Categoria Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale
Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Sociologia del lavoro, dell'economia e dell'indust
Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali
 
EAN 9781350422087
ISBN 978-1-350-42208-7
Numero di pagine 240
Dimensioni (della confezione) 15.4 x 23.6 x 2 cm
 
Serie Digital Africa
Categorie POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics & government, Impact of science & technology on society, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Control, privacy and safety in society
 

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