[Air-L] Book Announcement: Social Media as Surveillance

[Dan Trottier]

Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging
World, Ashgate
Daniel Trottier, Department of Informatics and Media
Uppsala University, Sweden

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.

‘Internet platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google have
become very popular in recent years. They process, store, analyse, and
commodify a lot of personal data, usage behaviour data, communication
data, and social network data. Daniel Trottier’s book is a crucial and
critical resource and must-read for all who want to understand the
implications social media has for surveillance at the interpersonal
and institutional level and for surveillance conducted by companies
and the police.’
 – Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden

‘Social media are not just sites that we visit, but increasingly
places where we reside. Such spaces are manufactured to augment
surveillance, fostering types of visibility that are central to new
forms of sociality and power relations. Professor Trottier’s book is
an invaluable analysis of how a complex assortment of groups are
making a home in this new domain of interactive monitoring.’
 – Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta, Canada

‘Looking for a wide-ranging, well-informed, up-to-date critical
sociology of social media surveillance, focused on the Facebook
phenomenon? This is it.’
 – David Lyon, Queen’s University, Canada

More info and sample pages available at:
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409438892

To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com
All online orders receive a discount