Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: After Julian Assange and Edward Snowden leaked government classified information, allegations about digital espionage become more prominent global wide. However, history teach us that surveillance technology has always been for dominant groups, and their respective governments, a institutionalize tool of social control. This article proposes the discussion of the relationship between power, surveillance and information literacy in contemporary soci ety. Specifically to understand if mass media, from Brazilian newspapers to scientific journals of information science, offers relevant information about technical backstage of digital media. Consequently, to evaluate risks related to information sharing in Cyberspace, once that modern instruments of control, as laptops and smartphones, serves the policy of data mining and directly affects the privacy rights and democratic society sovereignty.
Source: Estudos em Comunicação
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2805464777