Somebody's Watching You : Social media and surveillance : MM52
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 Face...