Social Media, Subjectivity, and Surveillance: Moving on From Occupy, the Rise of Live Streaming Video Elise Danielle Thorburn This article seeks to critically examine the practical application of live streaming video at use in contemporary resistance movements, particularly the work of CUTV during the Quebec Student Strike of 2012. With a brief comparison to the use of social media*and even live streaming*in the Occupy movement, this article demonstrates the differences, and sophistication, of live streaming video in the Quebec Spring. Specifically, this article seeks to understand the ways in which political actors and digital technologies form unique assemblages (in the Deleuzian sense), which can both operate as mechanisms of power as surveillance technologies for police forces or, if used carefully and critically, can open up nodes of counter-power, disrupting state surveillance, surveilling the police themselves, and providing the space for the construction of subjectivity on the part of political actors in the streets. Keywords: Surveillance; Activism; Social Media; Revolution; Assemblage; Counter- Hegemonic Surveillance Assemblages; Occupy; Quebec Student Strike; Subjectivity From the Arab Spring to the Quebec Student Strike: Two Revolutionary Years In 2011, a new cycle of social, political, and economic struggles burst out across the globe. Often responding to the fallout from the financial crisis of 2008 and the austerity measures governments were undertaking to reassert capitalist power, these struggles began in isolated locales and soon spread globally. This cycle continued in 2012 with the student strikes that reverberated across the province of Quebec, Elise Danielle Thorburn is a PhD Candidate at the University of Western Ontario, and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of North Carolina*Chapel Hill. Her research investigates the convergences of digital media, technology, and activism in the directly democratic structure of the assembly. Her research aims to understand the techno-scientific, Deleuzian ‘‘assemblage’’ as a mode of class recomposition, and the political usage of the general assembly as its specific form. She is also a mother, co-founder of the Feminist Action Committee, and is an editorial collective member of the Canadian political theory and action journal, Upping the Anti. Correspondence to: Elise Danielle Thorburn, 354 Delaware Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M6H 2T8, Canada. E-mail: ethorbur@uwo.ca. ISSN 1479-1420 (print)/ISSN 1479-4233 (online) # 2013 National Communication Association http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2013.827356 Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2014, pp. 5263