Media, Surveillance and Identity ― Social Perspectives

This volume aims to problematize conceptual linkages between media, surveillance, and identity in the contemporary world across a broad range of specific concerns. Editors Jansson (media and communication studies, Karlstad U., Sweden) and Christensen (media and communication studies, Stockholm U., Sweden) have organized the volume's 12 chapters into sections that explore how social actors perceive and respond to surveillance, the ways in which social norms and practices intended to maintain ontological security and interpersonal trust contribute to the legitimation of surveillance, and the political lines of division that strike across debates over monitoring practices. Examples of specific topics include: modeling surveillance in the context of consumption, the political implications of targeted advertising on social network sites, user perspectives on mobile social networks and surveillance, the "surveillancization" of social relations represented by online reputation systems used by such sites as Airbnb.com, game-like resistance to surveillance, and forms of online Chinese resistance to government surveillance practices supporting the ban on pornography. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Andre 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.