Social Media As Surveillance

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.

• • Author: Daniel Trottier
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jan 28, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 224 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1472455789
• • ISBN-13: 9781472455789