Transitional Justice in the Age of Social Media

Abstract

"Information and communication technologies have transformed the dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have increasingly played a central role in facilitating and mobilizing social movements throughout different parts of the world. Concurrently, the same technologies have been taken up by public authorities (including security agencies and the police) and have been used as surveillance tools to monitor and suppress the activities of certain demonstrators. This book explores the complex and contradictory relationships between communication and information technologies and social movements by drawing on different case studies from around the world. The contributions analyse how new communication and information technologies impact the way protests are carried out and controlled in the current information age. The authors focus on recent events that date from the Arab Spring onwards and pose questions regarding the future of protests, surveillance and digital landscapes"--Publisher's description Introduction: taking to the streets in the information age / Lucas Melgaço and Jeffrey Monaghan -- Part I: Digital practices as part of social movement repertoires of contention. Mobilisation and surveillance on social media : the ambivalent case of the anti-austerity protests in Spain (2011-2014) / Manuel Maroto and Alejandro Segura -- #rahmrepnow : social media and the campaign to win reparations for Chicago police torture survivors, 2013-2015 / Andrew S. Baer -- Cracks and reformations in the Brazilian mediascape : Mídia Ninja, radical citizen journalism, and resistance in Rio de Janeiro / Tucker Landesman and Stuart Davis -- 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. Settler colonial surveillance and the criminalization of social media : contradictory implications for Palestinian resistance / Madalena Santos -- Between visibility and surveillance : challenges to anti-corporate activism in social media / Julie Uldam -- The impact of video tracking routines on crowd behaviour and crowd policing / Marco Krüger -- Surveillance-ready-subjects : the making of Canadian anti-masking law / Debra Mackinnon.