Politics & the Media Books

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1. Routledge International Handbook of Surveillance Studies

   Edited by David Lyon, Kevin Haggerty, Kirstie Ball

   Surveillance is now the primary tool for all organizations. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58883-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. News Media and Power in Russia

   By Olessia Koltsova

   The end of communist rule in the Soviet Union brought with it a brave new world of media and commerce. Formerly state-owned enterprises were transformed, often through private ownership, and new corporations sprung up overnight to take advantage of the new atmosphere of freedom. Until now, most...

   April 2009 | 978-0-415-54567-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements

   Edited by Wim van de Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon, Dieter Rucht

   Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movement activists has offered the prospect for the development of global cyberprotest. The Internet with its transnational many-to-many communication...

   2004 | 978-0-415-29785-1 | Paperback (Routledge)