Media, e-governance and surveillance

Media do more than report the world; they organise attention, authority, and everyday citizenship. A pensioner who tracks a welfare application online, a journalist who livestreams a protest, and a commuter whose movements are logged by cameras all live inside the same new field. This chapter compares print, electronic, visual, and social media, explains e-governance and the surveillance society, and shows how the digital divide shapes who gains voice and who is merely watched.