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When in the summer of 2013 whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the scope of the mass surveillance programs conducted by the National Security Agency and its international partners, privacy activists launched several global online and offline campaigns to protect privacy and resist surveillance. Applying methods of social movement frame and discourse analysis, the dissertation seeks to analyze the various ways activists have tried to shape the privacy discourse in a post 9/11 'Surveillance Society.' A close reading of activist materials and texts over the course of four campaigns – "Restore the Fourth," "Stop Watching Us," "The Day We Fight Back," and "Reset the Net" – reveals a set of frame packages, which are juxtaposed with the media coverage the campaigns have generated. In subsequent semistructured interviews with 21 activists from 14 countries, participants involved in the protest events were asked to critically reflect on framing choices, media dynamics and the degree of transnational cooperation among various privacy advocacy groups. The dissertation contributes to the field of grass roots political communication research by discussing the potentials and limits of anti-surveillance frames as well as providing a cultural and oral history of organized resistance against surveillance in the post-Snowden world.

When in the summer of 2013 whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the scope of the mass surveillance programs conducted by the National Security Agency and its international partners, privacy activists launched several global online and offline campaigns to protect privacy and resist surveillance. Applying methods of social movement frame and discourse analysis, the dissertation seeks to analyze the various ways activists have tried to shape the privacy discourse in a post 9/11 'Surveillance Society.' A close reading of activist materials and texts over the course of four campaigns – "Restore the Fourth," "Stop Watching Us," "The Day We Fight Back," and "Reset the Net" – reveals a set of frame packages, which are juxtaposed with the media coverage the campaigns have generated. In subsequent semistructured interviews with 21 activists from 14 countries, participants involved in the protest events were asked to critically reflect on framing choices, media dynamics and the degree of transnational cooperation among various privacy advocacy groups. The dissertation contributes to the field of grass roots political communication research by discussing the potentials and limits of anti-surveillance frames as well as providing a cultural and oral history of organized resistance against surveillance in the post-Snowden world.

Der Umsatz der 50 größten Medienkonzerne der Welt hat sich in den vergangenen fünf Jahren erneut verdoppelt. Ihre Macht ist so groß wie nie zuvor: Medienunternehmen beeinflussen politische Berichterstattung und produzieren in Zeiten der "Streaming Wars" eine nie dagewesene Fülle von Content; sie entscheiden über die Platzierung von Suchergebnissen, sammeln persönliche Daten und vermarkten Benutzerprofile; sie entführen Milliarden von Menschen in immer komplexere virtuelle Spielwelten, bewerten die Kreditwürdigkeit von Staaten und kontrollieren akademische Fachzeitschriften. Ihre Lenker und Manager zählen zu den bestverdienenden Angestellten – Milliardäre und Millionäre mit exzellenten Kontakten zum politischen Establishment. Milliardenschwere Fusionen und Übernahmen halten die Medienkonzernwelt in Atem. Daten- und Wissenskonzerne aus dem Silicon Valley, die sich lange Jahre erfolgreich gegen staatliche Regulierung gewehrt haben, moderieren und zensieren aufgrund von wachsendem politischen Druck mittlerweile den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs. Und im Zuge der Globalisierung stoßen neue Player – insbesondere chinesische Medienunternehmen – in die Phalanx der zuvor von nordamerikanischen und europäischen Konzernen kontrollierten Medienwelt. In der von Grund auf aktualisierten neuen Ausgabe von "Wer beherrscht die Medien?" porträtieren Lutz Hachmeister, Christian Wagener und Till Wäscher die 50 größten Medienkonzerne der Welt und beschreiben dabei Konzernlenker, Geschäftsstrategien und historische Grundlagen.