How do individuals perceive the increasingly open-ended nature of mediated surveillance? In what ways are mediated surveillance practices interwoven with identity processes, political struggles, expression of dissent and the production of social space? One of the most significant issues in contemporary society is the complex forms and conflicting meanings surveillance takes. Media, Surveillance and Identity addresses the need for contextualized social perspectives within the study of mediated surveillance. The volume takes account of dominant power structures (such as state surveillance and commercial surveillance) and social reproduction as well as political economic considerations, counter-privacy discourses, and class and gender hegemonies. Some chapters analyse particular media types, formats or platforms (such as loyalty cards or location based services), while others account for the composite dynamics of media ensembles within particular spaces of surveillance or identity creation (such as consumerism or the domestic sphere). Through empirically grounded research, the volume seeks to advance a complex framework of research for future scrutiny as well as rethinking the very concept of surveillance. In doing so, it offers a unique contribution to contemporary debates on the social implications of mediated practices and surveillance cultures.

Jansson, André, editor of compilation; Christensen, Miyase, editor of compilation

Jansson, Andre (edt)/ Christensen, Miyase (edt)

Steve Jones; André Jansson; Miyase Christensen

Andrae Jansson; Miyase Christensen

Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter; Peter Lang.

Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter

Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated

New York: Peter Lang Pub.

Digital Formations, 1st, New ed, New York, 201608, c2014

United States, United States of America

Illustrated, 2013

New, PS, 2013

Obscured text on front cover due to sticker attached.

viii, 262 pages : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / André Jansson and Miyase Christensen -- Perceptions -- Complicit surveillance and mediatized geographies of visibility / Miyase Christensen -- Consuming surveillance : mediating control practices through consumer culture and everyday life / Nils Zurawski -- Social networking sites in the surveillance society : critical perspectives and empirical findings / Thomas Allmer, Christian Fuchs, Verena Kreilinger, and Sebastian Sevignani -- The emerging surveillance culture / David Lyon -- Practices -- The infinite debt of surveillance in the digital economy / Mark Andrejevic -- Mobile social networks and surveillance : users' perspective / Lee Humphreys / -- Collaborative surveillance and technologies of trust : online reputation systems in the "new" sharing economy / Jennie Germann Molz -- Textures of interveillance : a socio-material approach to the appropriation of transmedia technologies in domestic life / André Jansson -- Politics -- The non-consensual hallucination : the politics of online privacy / David Barnard-Wills -- Surveillance as a reality game / Liisa A. Mäkinen and Hille Koskela -- Sexual bodies and surveillance excess on the chinese internet / Katrien Jacobs -- Post-privacy and ideology / Patrick Burkart and Jonas Andersson Schwarz -- Contributors

How do individuals perceive the increasingly open-ended nature of mediated surveillance? In what ways are mediated surveillance practices interwoven with identity processes, political struggles, expression of dissent and the production of social space? This book deals with these questions.

One of the most significant issues in contemporary society is the complex forms and conflicting meanings surveillance takes. This book addresses the need for contextualized social perspectives within the study of mediated surveillance. -- Publisher description

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