Twitter and video activism as tools for counter-surveillance: the case of social protests in Spain

Breaking the Order: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Countersurveillance on the West Bank

“…The monitoring is a check on the police backed by activists' capacity to share and post their videos online to communities of resistance and to ignite a public debate (Bayerl and Stoynov 2016;Fernback 2013). Monitoring police officers also takes place during protests when activists document and disseminate online photos, videos, and accounts of the police's actions (Bradshaw 2013;Earl et al 2013;Hermida and Hernández-Santaolalla 2018). The prevalence of cop-watching activities is part of what was defined as the new police visibility (Goldsmith 2010;Newell 2014).…”

“…When does video-activists' countersurveillance work and when does it backfire? Countersurveillance can uncover misconduct (Bayerl and Stoynov 2016) and mobilize people to action (Hermida and Hernández-Santaolalla 2018) or, alternatively, it can backfire and lead to a spiral of surveillance and violence against activists (Wall and Linnemann 2014;Wilson and Serisier 2010). Scholarship regularly explores the types of countersurveillance outcomes, yet the conditions that lead to positive or negative outcomes remain unclear.…”

Editorial: Visibilities and New Models of Policing

“…The ease and reach of sharing digital capture of wrongdoing via social media is one factor that accounts for the power and influence such footage generates. In recent years, camera phones have captured instances of police and non-police abuses (see Hermida and Hernández-Santaolalla 2017), and the results of such incidents have instigated justifiable claims for accountability, injustice, and inequality. So influential have some of these incidents been that they have driven social movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement, and the Arab Spring.…”

El vídeo en las redes sociales locales: el caso de TeleElx

“…A cambio, los usuarios se veían recompensados con el efímero reconocimiento, y a veces con una pequeña remuneración, según el impacto o la calidad del producto (Harrison, 2010). Sobre todo, porque el vídeo se convirtió en uno de los soportes más efectivos para fenómenos como el activismo (Hermida y Hernández, 2017). Pero sin dejar de lado esta tendencia, los medios se están dando cuenta de la importancia de elaborar contenidos propios que se ajusten bien a los condicionantes de las principales plataformas de distribución (Johnston, 2016: 906-907).…”