Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World

By Daniel Trottier

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409438899
• ISBN13: 9781409438892
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"