Media, Surveillance and Identity

"New technologies continue to transform ever more of our lived reality. The contributors to this volume admirably draw attention to the surveillance dynamics of a host of new media, and how these usher-in new configurations of power." (Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta) "In this well-timed volume, Andre Jansson and Miyase Christensen have brought together a fascinating collection of discussions to illuminate the complexities of the current interface between surveillance, digital technologies, everyday media practices and issues of cultural and individual identity. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded, this collection will be essential reading for all who want to understand the social significance of surveillance practices in global-mediated modernity." (John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent University) "New technologies continue to transform ever more of our lived reality. The contributors to this volume admirably draw attention to the surveillance dynamics of a host of new media, and how these usher-in new configurations of power." (Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta) "In this well-timed volume, Andre Jansson and Miyase Christensen have brought together a fascinating collection of discussions to illuminate the complexities of the current interface between surveillance, digital technologies, everyday media practices and issues of cultural and individual identity. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded, this collection will be essential reading for all who want to understand the social significance of surveillance practices in global-mediated modernity." (John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent University)

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.

Contents: Miyase Christensen: Complicit Surveillance and Mediatized Geographies of Visibility - Nils Zurawski: Consuming Surveillance: Mediating Control Practices Through Consumer Culture and Everyday Life - Thomas Allmer/Christian Fuchs/Verena Kreilinger/Sebastian Sevignani: Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society: Critical Perspectives and Empirical Findings - David Lyon: The Emerging Surveillance Culture - Mark Andrejevic: The Infinite Debt of Surveillance in the Digital Economy - Lee Humphreys: Mobile Social Networks and Surveillance: Users' Perspective - Jennie Germann Molz: Collaborative Surveillance and Technologies of Trust: Online Reputation Systems in the "New" Sharing Economy - Andre Jansson: Textures of Interveillance: A Socio-Material Approach to the Appropriation of Transmedia Technologies in Domestic Life - David Barnard-Wills: The Non-Consensual Hallucination: The Politics of Online Privacy - Liisa A. Makinen/Hille Koskela: Surveillance as a Reality Game - Katrien Jacobs: Sexual Bodies and Surveillance Excess on the Chinese Internet - Patrick Burkart/Jonas Andersson Schwarz: Post-Privacy and Ideology.