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Media, Surveillance and Identity

Social Perspectives

by André Jansson (Volume editor) Miyase Christensen (Volume editor)
©2014 Textbook X, 262 Pages
Series: Digital Formations, Volume 84

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
X, 262
Year
2014
ISBN (PDF)
9781453911662
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433118807
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433118791
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-1166-2
Language
English
Publication date
2016 (August)
Keywords
society power dynamics
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2014. 262 pp.

Biographical notes

André Jansson (Volume editor) Miyase Christensen (Volume editor)

André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is co-editor of Online Territories (Peter Lang, 2011). Miyase Christensen is Professor of Media and Communications Studies at Stockholm University, and Guest Professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Technology – Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). She has co-edited/authored several books including Online Territories (Peter Lang, 2011), and is an editor of Popular Communication: the International Journal of Media and Culture.

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