ABSTRACT
This chapter explores an overview of several assertions of power and policing on social media in order to consider the coexistence of citizen counter-power and state power on these platforms. Digital vigilantism is a process where citizens are collectively offended by other citizen activity, and respond through coordinated retaliation on digital media platforms, including mobile devices and social media platforms. Moreover, swarm collective action can be subsumed as a state or corporate strategy, as 'rhizomatics and distribution signal a new management style, a new physics of organization that is as real as pyramidal hierarchy, corporate bureaucracy, representative democracy, sovereign at, or any other principle of social and political control'. The London Metropolitan Police purchased such software, which provides an aggregated account of future riots and other activity through the collection and processing of citizen communicative data. Yet there is a broader spectrum of user activity of relevance to notions of state activity, politics and power.
