Imminent dystopia? Media coverage of algorithmic surveillance at Berlin-Südkreuz

Imminent dystopia? Media coverage of algorithmic surveillance at Berlin-Südkreuz

Facial-recognition software continues to create heated controversy, as illustrated by a year-long pilot run at the Berlin-Südkreuz train station. The test run at one of Berlin’s main arteries was a catalyst for media attention, spurring heated discourse on the efficiency and legitimacy of surveillan...

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Main Author: Anna Verena Eireiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society 2020-03-01
Series:Internet Policy Review
Online Access:https://policyreview.info/node/1459
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spelling doaj-881b478012be4c0f979b273ed67085592020-11-25T02:23:36ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752020-03-01Volume 9Issue 110.14763/2020.1.1459Imminent dystopia? Media coverage of algorithmic surveillance at Berlin-SüdkreuzAnna Verena Eireiner0University of CambridgeFacial-recognition software continues to create heated controversy, as illustrated by a year-long pilot run at the Berlin-Südkreuz train station. The test run at one of Berlin’s main arteries was a catalyst for media attention, spurring heated discourse on the efficiency and legitimacy of surveillance technology. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis and (post-)panoptic theory, this paper investigates how the relationship between the public and the state is represented, how automated surveillance technology is linguistically framed and which problematisations were associated with the technology deployed during the 2017 pilot.https://policyreview.info/node/1459
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description Facial-recognition software continues to create heated controversy, as illustrated by a year-long pilot run at the Berlin-Südkreuz train station. The test run at one of Berlin’s main arteries was a catalyst for media attention, spurring heated discourse on the efficiency and legitimacy of surveillance technology. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis and (post-)panoptic theory, this paper investigates how the relationship between the public and the state is represented, how automated surveillance technology is linguistically framed and which problematisations were associated with the technology deployed during the 2017 pilot.
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