Social media as surveillance
Subtitle: rethinking visibility in a converging world
By: by Daniel Trottier
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781409438892; 9781409438908
Subjects: Social media; Online social networks; Electronic surveillance; Electronic intelligence; Social aspects; Internet; Right of Privacy
Description: This text develops a surveillance studies approach to social media by presenting first hand ethnographic research with a variety of personal and professional social media users. Using Facebook as a case-study, it describes growing monitoring practices that involve social media.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing social media surveillance; title: What kind of dwelling is Facebook? Scholarly perspectives; title: Interpersonal social media surveillance; title: Institutional social media surveillance; title: Market social media surveillance; title: Policing social media; title: What's social about social media? Conclusions and recommendations.