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dc.contributor.authorTøndel, Gunhild
dc.contributor.authorSætnan, Ann Rudinow
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-04T07:36:06Z
dc.date.available2018-05-04T07:36:06Z
dc.date.created2018-05-03T14:50:36Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.isbn978-1138293748
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2497057
dc.description.abstractWhen Edward Snowden downloaded and leaked documents on US collection and analysis of vast masses of communications data, he did so for a purpose. When Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, decided to publish from those documents, he too had a purpose. According to Rusbridger, their shared purpose was to engender public debates on a number of issues concerning Big Data intrusions into citizens’ communications. In this chapter, Tøndel and Sætnan analyse three years of Norwegian print news accounts to see to what extent these issues entered and remained in that branch of public discourse. They find that the Snowden leaks were far more successful than earlier leaks on the same topic. They received far more, broader, and deeper coverage than was achieved by earlier whistleblowers. They even led to some efforts at political reform. However, for a story to have lasting effect, it must be continually retold. Yet in that retelling, a story may change shape. Tøndel and Sætnan find that the Snowden story, though still being retold two years after the initial leaks made headlines, has devolved into a simpler story, mainly about Snowden as a person. And although Snowden remains the hero of that simpler story, it is being retold with far less detail as to who or what is the villain and as to what citizens should be doing to contain that villain.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherRoutledgenb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofThe Politics of Big Data. Big Data, Big Brother?
dc.titleFading dots, disappearing lines - surveillance and Big Data in news media after the Snowden revelationsnb_NO
dc.typeChapternb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber197-224nb_NO
dc.identifier.cristin1583238
dc.description.localcodeLocked until 29.9.2019 due to copyright restrictions. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in [The Politics of Big Data. Big Data, Big Brother?], available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-and-Policies-of-Big-Data-Big-Data-Big-Brother/Saetnan-Schneider-Green/p/book/9781138293748nb_NO
cristin.unitcode194,62,40,0
cristin.unitcode194,67,25,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap
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