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The project "Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society" investigated the implications of the Snowden revelations for key aspects of digital citizenship across issues regarding the legal and regulatory framework of digital communications; technical infrastructures and technical standards; everyday interactions with digital communication and advocacy regarding communicative rights; and investigative journalism and press freedom. The research data provided here includes data generated through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, in particular: (1) interviews with policy stakeholders, civil society activists, and journalists (transcripts); (2) focus groups with members of the British public (transcripts); (3) content analysis of British press and blogs (SPSS data).

The project "Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society" examined the governance of digital citizenship - i.e. civic agency reified through the use of digital media - in an era of omnipresent surveillance. Within a cross-disciplinary and practitioner-focused framework, the project analysed the challenges for digital citizenship through four interrelated work-streams: policy, technology, civil society, and news media. These four themes were investigated through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods as well as participatory action research. The work-streams collected data through desk research and field research that combined policy document analysis, technical and software analysis, focus groups, interviews and content and discourse analysis.