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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

By: Vian Bakir

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

By: Vian Bakir

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors in America and Britain) over their use of torture, first-hand or second-hand, to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring key agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting detailed case studies of key media events from the UK and USA, this insightful volume exposes dominant political discourses on the torture-for-intelligence policy. Whether in the form of unauthorized leaks, official investigations, investigative journalism, real-time reporting, or Non-Governmental Organisation activity, this timely study evaluates various modes of resistance to governments’ attempts at strategic political communication, with particular attention to ’sousveillance’: community-based recording from first-person perspectives. A rigorous exposition of the power-knowledge relationships constituting the torture-intelligence nexus, which re-evaluates agenda-building models in the digital age and assesses the strength of the public sphere across the Third, Fourth and Fifth Estates, Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in media and communication, sociology and social theory, politics and political communication, international relations, and journalism.

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Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication

Iraq, USA, UK

By: Vian Bakir

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Iraq, USA, UK

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Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

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Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation

By: Vian Bakir,Andrew McStay

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Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation

By: Vian Bakir,Andrew McStay

This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a rich, empirical, and interdisciplinary literature that examines multiple countries, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of Communications, Journalism, Politics, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Information Science, as well as global and local policymakers and ordinary citizens interested in how to prevent the spread of false information worldwide, both now and in the future.

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Springer Nature

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3031135512

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

By: Vian Bakir

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Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability

Relationships of Influence with Civil Society

By: Vian Bakir

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Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability

Relationships of Influence with Civil Society

By: Vian Bakir

This book provides a definitive overview of the relationships of influence between civil society and intelligence elites. The secrecy surrounding intelligence means that publication of intelligence is highly restricted, barring occasional whistle-blowing and sanitised official leaks. These characteristics mean that intelligence, if publicised, can be highly manipulated by intelligence elites, while civil society’s ability to assess and verify claims is compromised by absence of independent evidence. There are few studies on the relationship between civil society and intelligence elites, which makes it hard to form robust assessments or practical recommendations regarding public oversight of intelligence elites. Addressing that lacuna, this book analyses two case studies of global political significance. The intelligence practices they focus on (contemporary mass surveillance and Bush-era torture-intelligence policies) have been presented as vital in fighting the ‘Global War on Terror’, enmeshing governments of scores of nation-states, while challenging internationally established human rights to privacy and to freedom from torture and enforced disappearance. The book aims to synthesise what is known on relationships of influence between civil society and intelligence elites. It moves away from disciplinary silos, to make original recommendations for how a variety of academic disciplines most likely to study the relationship between civil society and intelligence elites (international relations, history, journalism and media) could productively cross-fertilise. Finally, it aims to create a practical benchmark to enable civil society to better hold intelligence elites publicly accountable. This book will be of great interest to students of intelligence studies, surveillance, media, journalism, civil society, democracy and IR in general.

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Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication

Iraq, USA, UK

By: Vian Bakir

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Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication

Iraq, USA, UK

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Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

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Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation

By: Vian Bakir,Andrew McStay

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How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

By: Vian Bakir

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Agenda-Building Struggles

By: Vian Bakir

This book examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors) over their use of torture to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring the agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting case studies of key media events from the UK and USA, it examines dominant political discourses on the torture-for-intelligence policy and evaluates various modes of resistance to governmentsOCO attempts at strategic political communication, with particular attention to OCysousveillanceOCO: community-based recording from first-person perspectives. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in media, sociology, political communication, international relations, and journalism.

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

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Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication

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Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability

Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability

Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication

Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication

Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

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