The Double-Edged Effects of Social Media Terror Communication: Interconnection and Independence vs. Surveillance and Human Rights Calamities

Sandro Nickel

The Double-Edged Effects of Social Media Terror Communication: Interconnection and Independence vs. Surveillance and Human Rights Calamities

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This paper connects the effects of social media on terror/anti-terror communication with dynamics and consequences of surveillance. Citizens become via social media more independent from mass media and more interconnected. This is also valid when citizens engage in terror/anti-terror communication. However, via social media citizens also become targets of the ‘collect-it-all’ surveillance, which was revealed to the global public in 2013. I argue that due to such surveillance some citizens might start to censor themselves and that surveillance inflicts with a number of human rights. I further argue that social media contribute to extending surveillance: by being a temptation for intelligence services, by not resisting state authorities and via constructing threat perceptions among populations which in effect deliver security politicians ‘windows of opportunity’ in order to implement ever more surveillance.

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Opportunities and Impasses : Theorizing and Experiencing Politics
Editors	Zeynep Güler
Number of pages	18
Place of Publication	Istanbul
Publisher	DAKAM Publishing
Publication date	Apr 2014
Pages	255-272
ISBN (Electronic)	978-605-5120-74-0
Publication status	Published - Apr 2014
Event	POLITSCI Political Science Conference - Istanbul University Campus, Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 31 Oct 2013 → 2 Nov 2013

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Conference	POLITSCI Political Science Conference
Location	Istanbul University Campus
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Istanbul
Period	31/10/2013 → 02/11/2013

Keywords

Social Media
Terrorism
Anti-Terrorism
Communication
Surveillance
Human Rights
Threat Perception
Self-Censorship

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Nickel, S 2014, The Double-Edged Effects of Social Media Terror Communication: Interconnection and Independence vs. Surveillance and Human Rights Calamities. in Z Güler (ed.), New Opportunities and Impasses: Theorizing and Experiencing Politics. DAKAM Publishing, Istanbul, pp. 255-272, POLITSCI Political Science Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 31/10/2013. <https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/5399893#page=255>

The Double-Edged Effects of Social Media Terror Communication: Interconnection and Independence vs. Surveillance and Human Rights Calamities. / Nickel, Sandro.
New Opportunities and Impasses: Theorizing and Experiencing Politics. ed. / Zeynep Güler. Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing, 2014. p. 255-272.

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