The scale of modern surveillance and the debate surrounding its nature have become
expansively complex. Consequently, the field of communication and surveillance studies
represent a critical area of scholarship with interwoven academic, policy and social
implications. This thesis, a critical ideological study of modern surveillance founded upon
an empirical study, draws on participant observation, militant ethnography and semistructured interviews as research methods. From a participant insider perspective, it
explores and interprets the experiences, meanings and views of counter-surveillance
actors targeted by surveillance based on participant observation and militant ethnography
conducted during the 2017 Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig and the 2019
Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg, Germany. Drawing on Jeffrey Juris’ militant
ethnography and based on the participants’ own experiences in resisting modern
surveillance, I focus on the lessons learned from those belonging to the third-wave of
privacy activism. Through their personal experiences, this research reveals control
strategies, lessons learned and views of privacy activists, hacktivists and civic-hackers on
the state of modern surveillance. This thesis concludes that the current symbiotic nature of
the state-corporate surveillance and disinformation nexus means any legislative solution to
be unlikely.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/42183 |
| Date | 25 May 2021 |
| Creators | Rochefort, Guillaume |
| Contributors | McCurdy, Patrick Michael |
| Publisher | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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