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Governing Surveillance Infrastructure: as performed in the Snowden Documents
Abstract Governing Surveillance Infrastructure is a study that discusses how governance and surveillance are performed in the Snowden documents. This thesis is performed in the intersection between ‘Surveillance Studies’ and ‘Science and Technology Studies’ (STS), with the aim to contribute to the discussion... view more
Governing Surveillance Infrastructure is a study that discusses how governance and surveillance are performed in the Snowden documents. This thesis is performed in the intersection between ‘Surveillance Studies’ and ‘Science and Technology Studies’ (STS), with the aim to contribute to the discussions within the field of ‘Surveillance Studies’. In an ongoing debate about how surveillance affects security and our privacy this thesis takes a step away from this dominating narrative and discusses the governing mechanisms of this surveillance infrastructure as performed in the Snowden documents. Avoiding the use of the traditional metaphors used to study surveillance this study is proposing that understanding governance mechanisms enable us to broaden how surveillance can be understood and studied. By identifying and discussing the governance mechanisms as performed in the Snowden documents, I will not only be able to understand how they function in this particular setting. It will also enable me to introduce a way to study surveillance through governance that contributes to a more nuanced way of understanding how surveillance is performed today.... view less
Keywords
classification; analysis; espionage; actor-network-theory; political governance; Foucault, M.; secret service; organizational structure; United States of America; surveillance; data protection; information technology; Deleuze, G.; data processing program; data; government agency; governance; organizational principle; communication technology; data capture
Classification
Political System, Constitution, Government
Free Keywords
NSA; United States National Security Agency; Surveillance Studies; Science and Technology Studies; Surveillance; Edward Snowden; Infrastructure; Panopticon; Snowden Digital Surveillance Archive
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
City
Copenhagen
Page/Pages
141 p.
Status
not reviewed