POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vigilante, Crowdsourcing
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Social media massively increases the surveillance capacity of the state: police and state actors can do surveillance. Digital vigilantism: citizens self-organize surveillances: facebook pages and social media sites to talk about riots and protests. Citizens looking at politicians and public agencies through ict: not an evil or bad thing, by engaging in these activities people exercise power, dual increase in power (social monitoring and crowd source) simultaneously empowering the state and citizens. Intergovernmental meeting summit canada, u. s. , mexico to have better countries. Social movements use social media platforms by which they can bring relevant facts to life. To gather information and release it to the public and try to influence public opinion on something. Sustain the possibility of police conduct is the aim of the video undercover police officers protesting. They gather information and release it to the public. Can shift public opinion on what is happening and then shift what they are doing (the government and public policy)
