Protests in the Information Age : Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance (Paperback)

Introduction: Taking to the Streets in the Information Age (Lucas Melgaco and Jeffrey Monaghan) Part I: Digital Practices as Part of Social Movement Repertoires of Contention 1. Mobilisation and Surveillance on Social Media: The Ambivalent Case of the Anti-Austerity Protests in Spain (2011-2014) (Manuel Maroto and Alejandro Segura) 2. #Rahmrepnow: Social Media and the Campaign to Win Reparations for Chicago Police Torture Survivors, 2013-2015 (Andrew S. Baer) 3. Cracks and Reformations in the Brazilian Mediascape: Midia Ninja, Radical Citizen Journalism, and Resistance in Rio De Janeiro (Tucker Landesman and Stuart Davis) 4. Applying Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: One Alternative Future of Protests (Daniel Bosk, Guillermo Rodriguez-Cano, Benjamin Greschbach and Sonja Buchegger) Part II: Control Practices of Policing and Security Agencies 5. Settler Colonial Surveillance and the Criminalization of Social Media: Contradictory Implications for Palestinian Resistance (Madalena Santos) 6. Between Visibility and Surveillance. Challenges to Anti-Corporate Activism in Social Media (Julie Uldam) 7. The Impact of Video Tracking Routines on Crowd Behaviour and Crowd Policing (Marco Kruger) 8. Surveillance-Ready-Subjects: The Making of Canadian Anti-Masking Law (Debra Mackinnon) Index