European Digital Rights: EU Surveillance (2012)
Filed under booklet | Tags: · biometrics, data retention, european union, privacy, surveillance
“The purpose of this booklet is to briefly outline current EU surveillance and security measures in order to give an insight into their scale and cumulative effect. In order to be legal under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, each security measure that limits fundamental rights is understood to be effective and a “necessary” and “proportionate” breach of the rights which our society considers to be fundamental.”
Written by Joe McNamee, Kirsten Fiedler, Marie Humeau, Daniel Dimov
Publisher European Digital Rights (EDRi), Brussels, 23 January 2012
The EDRi Papers, Edition 02
Creative Commons 3.0 License
20 pages
Vincent Mosco: The Political Economy of Communication, 2nd ed (1996/2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · communication, gender, globalisation, political economy, race, surveillance
The Political Economy of Communication provides a thorough coverage of an important area of communication studies: the political economy approach to media.
This highly successful text has been thoroughly updated, restructured and rewritten in this new edition, clearly demonstrating how power operates across all media, from newspapers to Facebook, and how media power intersects with globalization, social class, race, gender and surveillance.
– Provides a summary of the field of political economy, looking at its history and major schools of thought
– Highlights the work of key figures and differences that established the divide between economics and political economy
– Explains the necessity of media students to understand the general political economy tradition and the way in which it informs the political economy of communication
– Addresses the interdisciplinary nature of the field, with its links to economics, geography and sociology, and cultural and policy studies
This book offers a unique overview of the field of political economy of communication and will be of use to upper level undergraduate and graduate students of media and communication.
Publisher Sage Publications, 2009
ISBN 1412947006, 9781412947008
268 pages
PDF (updated on 2013-5-31)
Comment (1)Christopher Kullenberg, Jakob Lehne (eds.): The Resistance Studies Reader (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, culture jamming, hacking, internet activism, politics, resistance, social movements, surveillance
Collected articles from the Resistance Studies Magazine, issue 1-3, 2008.
With contributions by Tim Gough, Carol Jo Evans, Shane Gunderson, Patit Paban Mishra, Jeffrey Shantz, Ojakorotu Victor, Adrian Bua Roberts, Patrick Hiller, Thomas Riegler, Pei Palmgren, Ayo Whetho, Christine Whyte
Publisher The Resistance Studies Magazine & The Resistance Studies Network, Gothenburg and London, 2009
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0
ISBN 9789197802109
173 pages