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Anonymous dissent: Protest, privacy, and photographic surveillance in digital media

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New Media & Society

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Abstract

New Media & Society, Volume 28, Issue 8, Page 3711-3731, August 2026.
Protesters in recent years have been making a somewhat novel demand: they are asking journalists to blur their faces in news coverage of public demonstrations. This article investigates this demand to explore how new surveillance technologies and the ...