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Negotiating Visibility and Surveillance

‘Social Movement Ecology Framework’ to Explore the Interplay between Surveillance, Social Movement, and Mediatization

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Our presence on digital platforms generates digital footprint, and our electronic communication is subject to constant surveillance. For example, our phone conversation, web surfing, e-mail, web preferences and habits, credit/debit card information, bank, and insurance records are under surveillance (Baran, 2015). Such pervasive practices made American citizens concerned about the protection of their personal information.

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    Imran Mazid

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Mazid, I. (2016). Negotiating Visibility and Surveillance. In: Lowery, C., Walker, A., Thomas, C. (eds) Un-Democratic Acts. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-723-8_15

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