With the help of the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship, I spent nearly a month in Brazil conducting preliminary research for my dissertation, which will focus on broad processes of securitization, surveillance, and social control in Rio de Janeiro. I spent a majority of the time in the communities of Mangueira and Santa Marta, two locations “pacified” in recent years though enduring what are arguably radically different experiences under the current Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora program (UPP). Although I was initially interested in more overt, physical forms of policing, I began to take notice of the ways in which different groups use their phones to snap and share pictures, mobilize, or create and disseminate information in ways that both reinforce and subvert specific norms of mobility, spatial segregation, and access to public spaces.