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This article is expressing the extent to which our lives online are constantly under surveillance. The main concepts are Facebook surveillance, privacy settings, data mining and mobile monitoring. This highlights that despite its unethical grounds its a small price to pay to access social media.  There have been many incidences of this breach in privacy such as it Philadelphia school issued cameras were used to monitor students behavior. Daniel Trottier compares the digital space of social media and compares it to the different contexts in which we live our lives where it all bridges on social media. These have been kept separate and private before hand but no everyone can see.  Psychologist Erving Goffman suggested that we are like actors, preforming different behavior to create different impressions.  Targeted adverts (data mining) is described as ‘deep, intensive and persistent surveillance’ (Naughton, 2014) which often allows for example to infer a Facebook users IQ, Sexuality

MM56  - April 2016 &  Page 53:   A2 A* exam essay on Spotify. 1) Read the first two articles. Write one paragraph on each summing up the key aspects. page 10 -   Living and learning in a digital age. they researched the relationship between life at home and school as well as interaction between class interactions. This was in order to see boundaries in the different social worlds. They researched the culture of social media and they negative representations made by adults. During this longitudinal research they made sure to conciser the ethical issues too. In this research they studied young peoples everyday use of the media and investigated the relationship to the way they learn, relate and interact with friends. They didn't find any incidences of inappropriate/ illegal behavior.  At school everyone was given equal opportunities yet ignored the visible difference students felt regarding class and gender despite equality of race. Teachers sued popular culture