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- Svenonius, Ola, 1979-, et al.
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Explaining attitudes to secret surveillance in post-communist societies
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Ingår i: East European Politics. - : Routledge. - 2159-9165 .- 2159-9173. ; 34:2, s. 123-151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article seeks to explain public attitudes to secret surveillance. Secret surveillance, for example wiretapping by intelligence agencies, is a controversial activity that affects fundamental civil liberties in any democratic system. Several large research projects have recently attempted to explain how people form opinions about surveillance in general. Thereby privacy concerns and institutional trust are often highlighted. In this article, we argue that earlier research uses a too narrow definition of attitudes to surveillance and that secret surveillance is particularly sensitive due to its opaque character. We introduce a two-dimensional concept that focuses on rationalistic and emotional responses to surveillance. Drawing on new data from three post-communist societies – Estonia, Poland, and Serbia – we show how institutional trust is mainly responsible for explaining acceptance of secret surveillance, but not how one feels about it. Instead, it is the level of ontological insecurity and privacy concerns that explains this second dimension. The results are theorised and implications for future research are discussed.
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- Svenonius, Ola, 1979-, et al.
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Surveillance from a Post-Communist Perspective
- 2018
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Ingår i: Surveillance & Society. - : Surveillance Studies Network. - 1477-7487. ; 16:3, s. 269-276
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This special issue is the result of a research initiative that began in 2013, just before the annexation of Crimea by Russia. We, the guest editors, together with Pawel Waszkiewicz at the University in Warsaw, wanted to fill a gap in research on surveillance, which had at that time not yet addressed post-communist societies to any great extent. Today the situation is slightly different, but the need for further research is still pressing. It is therefore with great pleasure that we present a collection of five research articles by both senior and early-stage researchers, as well as a postscript by Professor Emeritus Maria Los, who is one of the few researchers who has written extensively on surveillance-related issues from a post-communist perspective. Below we introduce the special issue with a conceptual overview of post-communist research and its connections to surveillance studies.
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