Surveillance and resilience in theory and practice

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dc.contributor.authorRaab, Charles D.
dc.contributor.authorJones, Richard
dc.contributor.authorSzékely, Iván
dc.contributor.unitOther
dc.date.available2022-03-29T09:36:55Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractSurveillance is often used as a tool in resilience strategies towards the threat posed by terrorist attacks and other serious crime. “Resilience” is a contested term with varying and ambiguous meaning in governmental, business and social discourses, and it is not clear how it relates to other terms that characterise processes or states of being. Resilience is often assumed to have positive connotations, but critics view it with great suspicion, regarding it as a neo-liberal governmental strategy. However, we argue that surveillance, introduced in name of greater security, may itself erode social freedoms and public goods such as privacy, paradoxically requiring societal resilience, whether precautionary or in mitigation of the harms it causes to the public goods of free societies. This article develops new models and extends existing ones to describe resilience processes unfolding over time and in anticipation of, or in reaction to, adversities of different kinds and severity, and explores resilience both on the plane of abstract analysis and in the context of societal responses to mass surveillance. The article thus focuses upon surveillance as a special field for conceptual analysis and modelling of situations, and for evaluating contemporary developments in “surveillance societies”.
dc.description.urihttp://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v3i2.220
dc.identifier.issn2183-2439
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13608
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/220
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsCC BY-SA 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.source.epage41
dc.source.issue2
dc.source.journaltitleMedia and Communication
dc.source.spage21
dc.source.volume3
dc.subjectDemocracy
dc.subjectPrivacy
dc.subjectPublic goods
dc.subjectResilience
dc.subjectSecurity
dc.subjectSurveillance
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectMass media
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subjectResilience (network)
dc.subjectField (Bourdieu)
dc.subjectAnticipation (artificial intelligence)
dc.subjectPublic good
dc.subjectMeaning (linguistics)
dc.subjectTerrorism
dc.subjectContext (language use)
dc.subjectEnvironmental ethics
dc.subjectSociology & anthropology
dc.subjectNews media
dc.subjectJournalism
dc.subjectPublishing
dc.subjectCriminal sociology
dc.subjectSociology of law
dc.subjectMedia politics
dc.subjectInformation politics
dc.subjectMedia law
dc.subjectBasic research
dc.subjectGeneral Concepts and History of the Science of Communication
dc.subjectMonitoring
dc.subjectData protection
dc.titleSurveillance and resilience in theory and practice
dc.typeJournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
refterms.dateFOA2022-03-29T09:36:55Z
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