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First They Came for the Poor: Surveillance of Welfare Recipients as an Uncontested Practice
Media and Communication, 2015 There have been moments in American history when government surveillance of everyday citizens has aroused public concerns, most recently Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations concerning widespread, warrantless surveillance of Americans and foreigners alike ...
Nathalie Maréchal
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Vaccines, 2023 Background: Public health policies are crossed by economic and political interests that can affect the maintenance of the immunization programs and their vaccination coverages.
Marcia Michie Minakawa, Paulo Frazão
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IMF surveillance and financial markets—A political economy analysis [PDF]
European Journal of Political Economy, 2010 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we analyze the content of Article IV Public Information Notices (
Marcel Fratzscher, Julien Reynaud
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The commercial impact of pig Salmonella spp. infections in border-free markets during an economic recession [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2015 The genus Salmonella, a group of important zoonotic pathogens, is having global economic and political importance. Its main political importance results from the pathogenicity of many of its serovars for man.
G. Evangelopoulou +3 more
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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2015 In Mongolia, in the context of an epizootic outbreak, the government implements a centralized surveillance system to monitor animal diseases, especially concerning brucellosis, anthrax and FMD. Inherited from the Communist period, the centralized system (
Sandrine Ruhlmann
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Ideology, Critique and Surveillance
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2013 The 2013 revelations concerning global surveillance programmes demonstrate in unprecedented clarity the need for Critical Theory of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to address the mechanisms and implications of increasingly global ...
Heidi Herzogenrath-Amelung
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Social media and the democratization of political participation: a global perspective
Frontiers in Political ScienceThis study explores the relationship between social media use, political efficacy, media literacy, and online political participation across five national contexts—Germany, India, Brazil, Turkey, and Egypt.
Haytham Basha +2 more
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Why Should We Talk About Culture, When We Want to Understand ‘Surveillance’?
On_Culture, 2018 Why should we talk about culture, when we want to understand ‘surveillance’? The following is a brief sketch towards an answer to this question. It has two parts: first, it presents and discusses how the term ‘culture’ is used within Surveillance Studies,
Dietmar Kammerer
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Data-driven elections: implications and challenges for democratic societies
Internet Policy Review, 2019 There is a pervasive assumption that elections can be won and lost on the basis of which candidate or party has the better data on the preferences and behaviour of the electorate. But there are myths and realities about data-driven elections.
Colin J. Bennett, David Lyon
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"Living in the File": Kinship & Political Surveillance in Post-Civil War Greece
, 2017 Little attention has been paid to the ways in which political surveillance practices have historically intersected with a cultural logic of kinship or actual kin relationships, despite the fact that intergenerational effects of state surveillance have ...
Pendakis, Katherine
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