Racialized Surveillance: Activist Media and the Policing of Black Bodies

Canella, Gino

doi:10.1093/ccc/tcy013

Cited by 15 publications

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“…First, this article expands our understanding of state-sanctioned methods of digital repression under authoritarian or military regimes. Most studies (Canella, 2018; Chloé Lynn, 2022; Funk, 2020) exploring the role of the Internet and digital technologies in suppressing dissent have focused on protest movements in the West. The few studies investigating the interconnectedness of state, Internet, and dissent in countries of the Global South primarily examine how digital networks of communication aid in organizing, mobilizing, and sustaining collective action.…”

Section: Protests State Violence and Internet Shutdownsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state

Bhatia

Elhussein

Kreimer³

et al. 2023

Media, Culture & Society

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Internet shutdowns authorized by the state are becoming a recurring case in countries under military or authoritarian rule, such as Sudan. This article examines how the military in Sudan shut down the Internet to cover up the June 3 massacre. The shutdown made it difficult for the protestors and civilians to share and document the human rights violations committed by the state from June 3 to July 9, 2019. We also demonstrate how the Internet shutdowns were instrumental in circulating state-sponsored disinformation campaigns delegitimizing the protests. The article expands on existing literature to explain how information vacuums are conducive to the spread of disinformation and the weakening of on-ground protest movements. Despite the crippling effects of the Internet shutdown in Khartoum, our analysis illustrates how protestors challenged designed technical and physical workarounds to circumvent the shutdown.

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Section: Protests State Violence and Internet Shutdownsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state

Bhatia

Elhussein

Kreimer³

et al. 2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…To date, courts have not considered the surveillance of social media content to be a violation of Fourth Amendement protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as the content is posted publicly and users therefore have no expectation of privacy (Levinson-Waldman, 2019;Izant, 2017;Joh, 2016). 2 This exemption from Fourth Amendment protections has led to concerns about SMM's potential for suppressing constitutionally protected political activity (Levinson-Waldman, 2019;Canella, 2018). According to the ACLU of Northern California, MediaSonar encouraged the Fresno Police Department to track #BlackLivesMatter and related hashtags to identify "threats to public safety" (Cagle, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Racial Equity in Police Use of Social Media Monitoring Software

Burkhardt,

Borradaile,

Gelvin

2023

Preprint

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With the rise of so-called “big data,” police agencies are increasingly mining new sources of data to enhance their law enforcement capabilities. Social media represents one large and readily available source of such data. Social media monitoring (SMM) software allows police to cast a dragnet to capture suspicious activity by users in a large population. The present paper considers the equity of this dragnet process. Evidence from other domains demonstrates that law enforcement resources are often concentrated on marginalized populations. We ask: Does social media monitoring disproportionately identify members of certain racial groups as suspicious? To answer this question, we consider one SMM implementation by a local police department in Oregon over 13 months in 2016 and 2017. Using result logs, we compare the racial composition of flagged individuals against the local population of social media users. We find some evidence that the software flags White users at rates higher than would be expected given their use of social media, although this finding is sensitive to changes in sampling procedure. This paper offers the first publicly available equity audit of SMM software, and in so doing it highlights methodological and epistemological challenges in evaluating and ensuring equity in SMM.

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“…Prior to this request, he had become suspicious that his manager was surveilling him and, after reviewing his HR file, he had become aware of the employers' elaborate ruse. In this vein, Participant H was subjected to racialized workplace surveillance since the labour management processes viewed him as the perennial other, the usual suspect -a matter that has been well-documented in the literature in other contexts (Alimahomed-Wilson, 2019;Canella, 2018;Finn, 2011;Glasbeek et al, 2020;Lowe et al, 2017;Nichols et al, 2018).…”

Section: Subtheme 1: Angermentioning

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The Wretched of the Work: Anger, Fear, and Hopelessness as Impacts of Experiencing Workplace Racism in British Columbia, Canada

Asey

2022

csw

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Drawing inspiration from Frantz Fanon’s work on the colonization of racialized subjects, this article illuminates how racial discrimination impacted the wretched of the work, in reference to a group of racialized civil servants, in primarily White institutions of public service in British Columbia, Canada. Specifically, using data from twenty-five in-depth qualitative interviews, the article presents findings on the affective impacts of workplace racism on this group of participants. In this regard, anger is discussed as internalized, nonviolent and pent-up frustration over oppressive everyday microprocesses that presented significant workplace barriers to racialized workers. Subsequently, fear is outlined as shaped by the lingering concerns on the part of racialized subjects over the very real prospects that their employers could retaliate against participants using any pretext and at any given time. Lastly, hopelessness is explicated as the feeling of disempowerment driven by the belief that workplace inequities would persist irrespective of what participants did to seek equal and respectful treatment at work. Ultimately, through outlining findings as anger, fear, and hopelessness, this article adds to the existing body of scholarship on how workplace racism not only leaves an indelible mark on racialized targets but also why it wreaks havoc in employment relations, further reinforcing existing empirical literature on the debilitating impacts of workplace racism. Lastly, in view of the fact that racialized public servants have received scant research attention, the findings underscore the need for publicly-funded employers to address White supremacy and institutional domination in their midst on a priority basis.

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Racialized Surveillance: Activist Media and the Policing of Black Bodies

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state

Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state

Racial Equity in Police Use of Social Media Monitoring Software

The Wretched of the Work: Anger, Fear, and Hopelessness as Impacts of Experiencing Workplace Racism in British Columbia, Canada

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