Social Media as Surveillance

Download or read book Social Media as Surveillance written by Daniel Trottier and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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. What makes this study unique is that it not only considers social media surveillance as multi-purpose, but also shows how these different purposes augment one another, leading to a rapid spread of surveillance and visibility.