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Andrea GloriosoIn this article, I argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. In the context of online so
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lucia caroIn this article, I argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. In the context of online so
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Paulo MoekotteIn this article, I argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. In the context of online social networking, surveillance is something potentially empowering, subjectivity building and even playful – what I call participatory surveillance.
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prezzemoloIn this article, I argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. In the context of online so
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08 May 09
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In public opinion and academia, many people have voiced concern and amazement about the openness, or perhaps thoughtlessness, expressed in the behavior of social networking site’s users. As Jon Callas, chief security officer at the encryption software maker, PGP, puts it: “I am continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves” (quoted in Marks, 2006).
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This has led to discourses of education and protection, since the argument goes that youngsters apparently need to be trained in a code of conduct with regards to online activities to learn how to protect themselves. In 2006, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) was introduced and passed (410–15) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill is supposed to protect minors from predators by instructing facilities receiving federal aid, e.g., public libraries, to block access to social networking sites, where youngsters might encounter adults seeking sexual contact.
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The author is convinced that past online social networking will be damaging to an applicant’s chances for employment.
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It can be added to this employer–focused argument that discriminatory practices against people with online histories could be considered an ethical injustice similar to discrimination based on gender, race or, for that matter, the candidate’s history of exercising free speech in public debat
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hierarchical power relation between the gaze of the watcher that controls the watched. The hi
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The moral panics, conspiracy theories, and the difficulties in understanding why people actually would want to engage in online social networking all reflect this dystopian view on surveillance. It is the
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These are the idea of user empowerment and the building of subjectivity, and, second, the understanding of online social networking as a sharing practice instead of an information trade. Togeth
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practice of revealing your (very) personal life. By exhibiting their lives, people claim “copyright” to their own lives [9], as they engage in the self–construction of identity. This reverts the vertical power relation, as visibility becomes a tool of power that can be used to rebel against the shame associated with not being private about certain things. Thus, exhibitionism is liberating, because it represents a refusal to be humble [10].
Online social networking can also be empowering for the user, as the monitoring and registration facilitates new ways of constructing identity, meeting friends and colleagues as well as socializing with strangers. This changes the role of the user from passive to active, since surveillance in this context offers opportunities to take action, seek information and communicate. Online social networking therefore illustrates that surveillance – as a mutual, empowering and subjectivity building practice – is fundamentally social
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The practice of online social networking can be seen as empowering, as it is a way to voluntarily engage with other people and construct identities, and it can thus be described as participatory. It is important to not automatically assume that the personal information and communication, which online social networking is based on, is only a commodity for trading. Implicit in this interpretation is that to be under surveillance is undesirable. However, to participate in online social networking is also about the act of sharing yourself – or your constructed identity – with others.
Accordingly, the role of sharing should not be underestimated, as the personal information people share – profiles, activities, beliefs, whereabouts, status, preferences, etc. – represent a level of communication that neither has to be told, nor has to be asked for. It is just “out there”, untold and unasked, but something that is part of the socializing in mediated publics. One of the findings in the earlier mentioned Pew Internet & American Life Project report
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I have tried to shed light on the social aspect of surveillance, as a form of participatory surveillance involving mutuality, empowerment and sharing. It should be stressed that my intention is not to belittle the potential dangers of surveillance on the Web. There are many threats, ranging from privacy invasion and social sorting to fraud and identity theft (Gross and Acquisti, 2005). Precautions must be taken to avoid these dangers.
My point is that we should not let the awareness of these threats take over when we study online social networking. When we study the actual practice, we should not be “lured” into only seeing the dangers in things. Rather, online social networking is an opportunity to rethink the concept of surveillance.
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Kristina Hoeppnerappeared in First Monday, Vol 13, Number 3 - 3 March 2008
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tiscarI argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment.
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Fernando Sartículo de investigación sobre el control y participación en las redes sociales
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Kevin LimA paper about how online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. Challenges conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. Thanks Coleman!
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11 Apr 08
Anders Albrechtslund looks at the social aspects of surveillance, and suggests it can be seen as empowering and participatory. An interesting alternative to the usual emphasis on potential dangers live privacy invasion and fraud.
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09 Apr 08
Mark RabnettConventional understandings of surveillance often focus on control and disempowerment. With online social networking, surveillance is something potentially empowering, subjectivity building and even playful – i.e., participatory surveillance.
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hannah sAlbrechtslund offers a fresh perspective for online social networking sites
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I argue that it is an unproductive abstraction to make a sharp distinction between the physical world and the virtual world. Instead, online social networking must be viewed as a mixed world and relating to both online and offline activities.
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Nancy WhiteAbstract: In this article, I argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. In the context of
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Josephine Dorado"In this article, I argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. In the context of online s
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05 Mar 08
Adam CroweOn the police using social networking during criminal investigations: "public and private, official and social, mix in completely new ways. Social communication becomes a tool for the police, and criminal investigation becomes part of social interaction."
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songphanOnline Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance
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Rudy LeonOnline Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance
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Ratcatcher"However, to participate in online social networking is also about the act of sharing yourself – or your constructed identity – with others"
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Michel BauwensI argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment.
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Christian KreutzIn this article, I argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. In the context of online so
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surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge
conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control
and disempowerment. In the context of online social networking,
surveillance is something potentially empowering, subjectivity building
and even playful – what I call participatory surveillance.
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