Broschiertes Buch

Digital Surveillance in Africa

Power, Agency, and Rights

Herausgeber: Roberts, Tony; Mare, Admire

Beschreibung

An empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, policy-oriented analysis of how public and private actors use digital surveillance for social influence and control in eight African countries.

Autor

Tony Roberts is a Digital Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. His research focuses on digital rights, digital inequalities and participatory methodologies. He has worked at the intersection of digital technologies, development and social justice since 1988. Dr. Roberts is the principal investigator of the GCRF African Digital Rights Network and editor of the collected edition Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries. Admire Mare is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was previously Deputy Head of the Communications department at the Namibian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on participatory journalism, social media misinformation, and digital surveillance.

Produktdetails

• Digital Africa
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781350422070
• ISBN-10: 135042207X
• Artikelnr.: 72110024