Abolishing surveillance : digital media activism and state repression / Chris Robé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robé, Chris, 1972- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Political aspects--United States.

Digital media.

Social movements--United States--History.

Social movements.

Electronic surveillance--United States--History.

Electronic surveillance.

Political persecution--United States--History.

Political persecution.

Political participation--Technological innovations.

Political participation.

activists.

Digital media--Political aspects.

Political activists.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

x, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2023]

Summary:

Offers an in-depth study of how various communities and activist organizations are integrating digital media activism into their actions against state surveillance and repression. The book focuses on a wide array of movements within the United States such as Latinx copwatching groups in New York City, Muslim and Arab American communities in Minneapolis, undercover animal rights activists, and counter-summit protesters to explore the ways in which government surveillance and repression impacts them and, more importantly, their different but related online and offline tactics and strategies employed for self-determination and liberation. Digital media production becomes a core element in such organizing as cell phones and other forms of handheld technology become more ubiquitous. Yet such uses of technology can only be successfully employed when built upon strong grassroots organizing that has always been essential for social movements to take root. Neither idealizing nor disparaging the digital media activism explored within its pages, Robé analyzes the successes and failures that accompany each case study. The book explores the historically shifting terrain since the 1980s to the present of how historically disenfranchised communities, activist organizations, and repressive state institutions battle over the uses of digital technology and media-making practices as civil liberties, community autonomy, and the very lives of people and other-than-human animals hang in the balance. --From publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live"

Seeing past the walls of the slaughterhouses: animal rights, undercover video,and struggles over visibility

Here come the anarchists: state repression, video activism, and counter-summit protesting

Documenting the little abuses: copwatching, countersurveillance, and community organizing

Somali American narratives and suspect communities: visibility, representation, and media making in the age of Islamophobia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-309) and index.

ISBN:

9781629633619

1629633615

OCLC:

1398015040

Publisher Number:

90103137554