LEADER 04623nam 22007095 450 001 9910637708303321 005 20240724112125.0 010 $a9783031166365 010 $a3031166361 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-16636-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7165985 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7165985 035 $a(CKB)25913975800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-16636-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925913975800041 100 $a20221218d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDigital Surveillance in Southern Africa $ePolicies, Politics and Practices /$fby Allen Munoriyarwa, Admire Mare 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Munoriyarwa, Allen Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031166358 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Twists and Turns? From Analogue to Digital Surveillance -- Chapter 2: The Political Economy of Digital Surveillance: Actors, Powers and Interests -- Chapter 3: Regulating and Legislating Surveillance -- Chapter 4: Public Space and Communication Surveillance -- Chapter 5: Mainstreaming Surveillance Through the Biometrification of Everyday Life -- Chapter 6: Quotidian Forms of Resistance to Surveillance -- Chapter 7: Conclusions: The Bigger Picture of Surveillance Futures. 330 $aThis book critically examines the manifest and latent practices of surveillance in the southern African region, using case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique. The book demonstrates the growing role of super-powers in the construction and normalization of the surveillance state. It traces the digitization of surveillance practices to the rapid adoption of smart CCTV, facial recognition technologies and EMSI catchers. Through predictive policing mechanisms, state security agencies have appropriated digital media technologies for sentiment analysis, constant monitoring of digital footprints of security targets, and even deploying cyber-troops on popular social media platforms. The authors argue that surveillance practices have thus been digitized with deleterious impact on the right to privacy, peaceful assembly and freedom of expression in the region. Furthermore, they argue that specific laws and regulations governing surveillance practices in the region are lagging behind. Finally, the book demonstrates how digital surveillance have significantly infiltrated the political, economic and social fabric of Southern Africa. This book provides much needed systematic, cutting-edge research into the trends, practices, policies and geo-political interests at the center of surveillance practices in the region, providing a crucial link between human rights, such as freedom of privacy and expression, and political authoritarianism. Allen Munoriyarwa is a Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communication, at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Admire Mare is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a Research Fellow at the African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of the Witwatersrand. 606 $aDigital media 606 $aTechnology$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aTechnology$xSociological aspects 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aEthnology$zAfrica 606 $aCulture 606 $aDigital and New Media 606 $aEthics of Technology 606 $aEmerging Technologies 606 $aPublic Policy 606 $aAfrican Culture 615 0$aDigital media. 615 0$aTechnology$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aTechnology$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 14$aDigital and New Media. 615 24$aEthics of Technology. 615 24$aEmerging Technologies. 615 24$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aAfrican Culture. 676 $a363.232 676 $a303.3 700 $aMunoriyarwa$b Allen$01274332 702 $aMare$b Admire 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910637708303321 996 $aDigital Surveillance in Southern Africa$93003011 997 $aUNINA