From Protest to Surveillance: The Political Rationality of Mobile Media : Modalities of Neoliberalism

Cover
Acknowledgment
Contents
1 Introduction
Part One: Play of Freedom
	2 Governmentality
		Political Technologies: Pastoral Power
		Freedom as Source of Governing and as the Correlative of Security
		Government Programs: Techniques, Practices, Failures and Risks
		Empirical Statements and Governmental Studies
		Governmental Studies, Eurocentrism and ‘Postcolonial’ Societies
	3 Mobile Protest Media: Resisting Government – Governing Resistance
		Power and Resistance
		From Resistance to Counter-Rationalities
		From Counter-Rationalities to Mobile Protest Media
	4 Mobile Protest Media Case Study: The Lawyers’ Movement
		Pakistan and Musharraf
		The Dissemination of Mobile Phones in Pakistan
		The Protest Movement
		SMS, Online and Broadcast Media
		State of Surveillance in Pakistan during the Lawyers’ Movement and Anti-Surveillance  Tactics
		The Clash of Rule
		Mobile Media as an Agent of Governmentality
	5 Distributed Action and Centralized Surveillance
		Mobile Media Facilitates Collective Actions
		Layers of Distributed Action
Part Two: The Liberal Paradox
	6 Surveillance
		What is Surveillance?
		Big Brother’s Effects on Surveillance Studies
		Surveillance and Location
		The Concept of Institutionalized Mediation
		Panspectron and Surveillant Assemblage
		Interlude: Ricardo Dominguez on Transparent Surveillance
	7 Re-Entry of Mobile Media Sovereignty
		Illiberal Government and the Surveillant Assemblage
		Episteme and Modalities of Neo-Sovereignty
		Registration of SIM Cards
		Blocking of Communication
		Data Retention as Neo-Sovereign Data Production
		A Panspectron Supplements Liberal Technologies
	8 Mobile Surveillance Media Case Study
		Introduction: Section 129 of the German Criminal Code
		The MG Investigations
		Conclusions from the Documents
Part Three: Bottom-Up Strategies
	9 Necessities for Trusted Telecommunication
		Trust in Telecommunication 1: Securing Content
		Four Criteria for Trusted Communication
		Trust in Telecommunication 2: Securing Transaction Data
		Self-Governing Communication Infrastructures
	10 Conclusion: Mobile Media Pushes the Liberal Paradox
Appendices
	A Empirical Research about Protests: Ethical Considerations
	B Overview of Interviews
	C Index: Groups and Initiatives of the Interviewees
		Brazil
		India
		Japan
		Mexico
		Pakistan
		Philippines
		South Korea
		Spain
		UK
		USA
Bibliography
Glossary and Abbreviations