The global threat posed by the coronavirus has transformed mobile media and their software applications into state-organized surveillance technologies. This special issue deals with image-political and media-technological aspects of the data visualizations of mobility, which have been used by Internet companies, national governments, and health authorities for different purposes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The disciplinary techniques of state surveillance are migrating into all areas of digital communication and affect mobile media (geo-tracking), stop corona apps (monitoring), smart cities (face recognition, sensor technologies), social media (blaming) and selfies (self-evidence). In a global perspective, the contributors compare different national strategies, including strategies in non-western countries.weiterlesen