Post-Snowden Internet Policy: Between Public Outrage, Resistance and Policy Change

Julia Pohle; Leo Van Audenhove

doi:10.17645/mac.v5i1.932

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Post-Snowden Internet Policy: Between Public Outrage, Resistance and Policy Change

Julia Pohle Internet Policy Project Group, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
Leo Van Audenhove Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and Co-Lab for e-Inclusion and Social Innovation, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

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Abstract: This editors’ introduction provides a short summary of the Snowden revelations and the paradoxical political and public responses to them. It further provides an overview of the current academic debate triggered by the Snowden case and the documents leaked by him and introduces the articles featured in this issue on post-Snowden Internet policy.

Keywords: digital; intelligence agency; Internet policy; policy change; privacy; Snowden; surveillance; whistleblowing

Published: 22 March 2017

Issue: Vol 5, No 1 (2017): Post-Snowden Internet Policy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v5i1.932

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Media and Communication

Open Access Journal

ISSN: 2183-2439

Post-Snowden Internet Policy: Between Public Outrage, Resistance and Policy Change