Daniel Trottier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Trottier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Trottier |
| SIGNATURE | TROTTIER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8476-673X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The rise of “light relationships”: Exploring the motivations behind Chinese international students’ use of dating apps in The Netherlands
Dating apps have emerged as essential tools for Chinese international students seeking to navigate interpersonal relationships in foreign environments. This study employs the theoretical framework of techno-moral change to highlight the soft impacts of dating apps on shaping these students’ perceptions. By exploring the experiences of users influenced by dual cultural contexts, we address a gap in the existing literature, which predominantly focu…
The crafting of an online police métier. The case of Norwegian online police patrols
This research explores the evolution of policing practices in the digital era, focusing on the rise of digital police patrols as a transformative aspect of contemporary law enforcement, which prompts an emerging online police métier . Mediated by digital technology, policing in online spaces creates radically new opportunities and challenges for police officers and has further led to significant changes to the traditional police métier. The study…
A Research Agenda for Social Media Surveillance
They Not like Us: Cultural Aggregation and Ambiguous Meaning-Making in Internet Culture
Introduction: From Rap Battles to Cultural Battlegrounds In 2024, rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake took music, popular culture, and even politics by storm with an escalating series of diss tracks (Coscarelli), the latest chapter in a long-simmering rivalry dating back to 2014. Feuds have long defined rap, with diss tracks forming a distinct sub-style (Baker). The most infamous precedent comes from the 1990s, when American rappers from the East Co…
Symbolic trajectories in action: Digital technologies and representations of a stigmatized neighborhood
The symbolic standing of a neighborhood has material consequences, and stigmatized neighborhoods are often locked into a disadvantageous position. So far scholars have mostly studied neighborhood change in terms of degradation or upgrading, but we adopt a complex perspective that accounts for the contested nature of the processes shaping “symbolic trajectories.” Seeking to gauge the role played by digital technologies in these processes, we studi…
Norm enforcement on and of Reddit: Rules of engagement and participation
The social platform Reddit hosts a set of communities that denounce offensive behavior, invoking scrutiny and shame on (categories of) individuals. Despite varying in their targets, they all promote actionable content to an audience who can view, share and comment on it. These groups allow a global public to air grievances, enabling both accountability and abuse. Following high profile scandals, Reddit routinely sanctions and purges problematic ‘…
Anti-Feminism and Self-Improvement: Hegemonic Femininity in the Manosphere
The Red Pill adherents believe 'feminist doctrines' in society deprive men and women of being their natural selves, disrupting heterosexual relationships in consequence. Research on manosphere groups generally focuses on men's involvement, but women participate in these movements too. One such form of participation is the RedPillWomen subreddit ('r/RPW' in reddit jargon). Hegemonic femininity remains an understudied component of the manosphere. U…
Urban Data Analytics as Research Topic, Method and Ethical Concern
Local and global business interests assemble images of neighbourhoods from localised knowledge, including disparate forms of public data such as reviews, blog posts, and open data from municipalities and other organisations. (In)visible forms of working with and worrying about neighbourhood data can be understood as an engagement with the neighbourhood’s reputation, or rather its symbolic trajectory: a set of tangible and intangible indicators th…
Dating apps: A literature review
Dating apps have become one of the most prominent and contentious topics in the realm of intimacy among the wider public and academia. Media and communication researchers have examined their uptake across cultural contexts, seeking to address the dynamics between dating apps and social processes. With the knowledge accumulated in this research field, we assemble a comprehensive account of interactions through dating apps. We categorize existing f…
Covidiots as Global Acceleration of Local Surveillance Practices
On a global scale, the COVID-19 pandemic compels civilians to drastically alter their conduct and to remain vigilant about the conduct of those around them. As cases spiked, the term covidiot emerged to capture a range of newly transgressive behaviors. Open denunciation of covidiots has become a prominent appeal from governments, with the mayor of Amsterdam instructing the public to report house parties and other novel infractions. In both public…
Book notes: Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Constructing Sexual Fields: Chinese Gay Men's Dating Practices Among Pluralized Dating Apps
In this study, we draw on sexual field theory to examine the structural nature of metropolitan Chinese gay men's mobile dating practices in a polymedia environment where one can access an array of dating apps. We define structures of desire in the sexual field as not only the transpersonal valuations of desirability but also the dominance of particular desires that coordinate actors' expectations and practices. Based on interviews with 52 urban C…
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
MediaMatters is an international book series published by Amsterdam University Press on current debates about emerging and transforming cultural practices that engage with (new) media technologies.Contributions to the series critically analyse and theorise the materiality, spatiality, mobility and performativity of these practices in book projects that engage with today's dynamic digital media culture.MediaMatters focuses on objects and practices…
More Than Meets the Eyes: The Lens of Visibility in Internet Research
The objective of this panel is to examine the analytical and empirical relevance of the “visibility lens” for Internet research. In the past decade, researchers have started to take a specific interest in the constitutive role of online visibility in the organization of social reality. Studies have underlined the fundamental role of visibility afforded by digital technologies in the social recognition or exclusion of individuals, groups, and comm…
“The first combat meme brigade of the Slovak internet”: Hybridization of civic engagement through digital media trolling
This paper analyzes a locally bound and hybridized form of civic engagement through digital media. Based on an explorative case study of a Slovak Facebook page called Zomri, engaged mostly in both mockery and denunciation of societal and political actors, the paper aims to challenge existing conceptual definitions of social media-based civic engagements, pointing to its hybridization. Through in-depth interviews with its founders and a survey of …
Online scrutiny of people with nice cars: A comparative analysis of Chinese, Russian, and Anglo-American outrage
Connected by platforms and equipped with mobile recording devices, social media users are able to conduct near-constant mutual scrutiny. Such mediated scrutiny sometimes escalates to public denunciations online and even mediated or embodied interventions. A recurring theme of such scrutiny can be observed not only on Chinese social media but also on platforms in Russia and elsewhere, in which hostility is openly expressed towards people with nice…
Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Disinformation and Digital Media as a Challenge for Democracy
It would be pleasant to think that democracies will always wake up to their threats - internal and external - and heal themselves in good time before it is too late. [...] Yet, it is not too late to find public policy solutions which can restore information technologies to their original role of facilitators of democracy rather than their undertakers. But the timeframe is closing and we need these solutions sooner rather than later
Introducing digital vigilantism
n More Share Options\nPrevious article\nView issue table of contents\nNext article\nIn Europe and America, political mobilisations have emboldened citizens to monitor and harass individuals based on categories of suspicion, for instance illegal migrants. These mobilisations, in turn, have spawned counter-movements seeking to render perpetrators of hate-speech and harassment visible and accountable. Depending on the cause defended and the politica…
Confronting the digital mob: Press coverage of online justice seeking
This article offers an exploratory account of press coverage of digitally mediated vigilantism. It considers how the UK press renders these events visible in a sustained and meaningful way. News reports and editorials add visibility to these events, and also make them more tangible when integrating content from social media platforms. In doing so, this coverage directs attention to a range of social actors, who may be perceived as responsible for…
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
Trolls for Trump', virtual rape, fake news - social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world - even life-and-death - impact? How can hatred, bullying, and dehumanization on social media platforms be addressed and countered in a post-truth world? This book u…
Introducing Vigilant Audiences
"This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism - a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and political life. Longstanding forms of moral scrutiny and justice seeking are disseminated through our contemporary media landscape, and researchers are increasingly recognising the significance of societal impacts effected by digital…
Denunciation and doxing: Towards a conceptual model of digital vigilantism
Individuals rely on digital media to denounce and shame other individuals. This may serve to seek justice in response to perceived offences, while often reproducing categorical forms of discrimination. Both offence taking and its response are expressed online by gathering and distributing information about targeted individuals. By seeking their own form of social and/or criminal justice, participants may supersede institutions and formal procedur…
Intelligent Personal Assistants and the Intercultural Negotiations of Dataveillance in Platformed Households
The platformization of households is increasingly possible with the introduction of “intelligent personal assistants” (IPAs) embedded in smart, always-listening speakers and screens, such as Google Home and the Amazon Echo. These devices exemplify Zuboff’s “surveillance capitalism” by commodifying familial and social spaces and funneling data into corporate networks. However, the motivations driving the development of these platforms—and the data…
Coming to Terms with Shame: Exploring Mediated Visibility against Transgressions
Shaming in a social context is necessarily assembled, as it depends on a loosely and often spontaneously arranged network of actors to convey denunciation. Digital tools further the expansion of such networks, a development that is of particular concern for surveillance scholars. This paper seeks to advance an account of user-led surveillance of peers that is centred on the enactment and experience of shame, notably as such practices can mobilise…
Denunciation and doxing: Towards a conceptual model of digital vigilantism
Individuals rely on digital media to denounce and shame other individuals. This may serve to seek justice in response to perceived offences, while often reproducing categorical forms of discrimination. Both offence taking and its response are expressed online by gathering and distributing information about targeted individuals. By seeking their own form of social and/or criminal justice, participants may supersede institutions and formal procedur…
Policing Social Media
Les investigations policières sur les médias sociaux sont composées de l'activité individuelle et institutionnelle. Au lieu de supplanter les institutions policières, les utilisateurs individuels augmente son champ d'application, et sont souvent impliqués dans ce processus sans même le savoir. Cela produit une visibilité qui combine le mandat et l'impunité de la police avec les optiques uniques sur la vie quotidienne des individus. Après avoir pr…
Covidiots as Global Acceleration of Local Surveillance Practices
On a global scale, the COVID-19 pandemic compels civilians to drastically alter their conduct and to remain vigilant about the conduct of those around them. As cases spiked, the term covidiot emerged to capture a range of newly transgressive behaviors. Open denunciation of covidiots has become a prominent appeal from governments, with the mayor of Amsterdam instructing the public to report house parties and other novel infractions. In both public…
Intelligent Personal Assistants and the Intercultural Negotiations of Dataveillance in Platformed Households
The platformization of households is increasingly possible with the introduction of “intelligent personal assistants” (IPAs) embedded in smart, always-listening speakers and screens, such as Google Home and the Amazon Echo. These devices exemplify Zuboff’s “surveillance capitalism” by commodifying familial and social spaces and funneling data into corporate networks. However, the motivations driving the development of these platforms—and the data…
Open source intelligence, social media and law enforcement: Visions, constraints and critiques
This article considers how recent developments in open source intelligence impact the inclusion of social media data in policing, and how these changes are a reflection of technological affordances by platform developers and private third-party companies, as well as police cultural and institutional constraints. It explores the institutional contexts in which social media open source intelligence is trialled in Europe by drawing on interviews wit…
Constructing Sexual Fields: Chinese Gay Men's Dating Practices Among Pluralized Dating Apps
In this study, we draw on sexual field theory to examine the structural nature of metropolitan Chinese gay men's mobile dating practices in a polymedia environment where one can access an array of dating apps. We define structures of desire in the sexual field as not only the transpersonal valuations of desirability but also the dominance of particular desires that coordinate actors' expectations and practices. Based on interviews with 52 urban C…
Introducing digital vigilantism
n More Share Options\nPrevious article\nView issue table of contents\nNext article\nIn Europe and America, political mobilisations have emboldened citizens to monitor and harass individuals based on categories of suspicion, for instance illegal migrants. These mobilisations, in turn, have spawned counter-movements seeking to render perpetrators of hate-speech and harassment visible and accountable. Depending on the cause defended and the politica…
Surveillance and/of Nature
Surveillance is a key aspect of contemporary industrialized Western societies. The now extensive literature on the dynamics of surveillance has, however, curiously overlooked how nonhuman phenomena have been incorporated into quite different surveillance-related agendas. This paper provides a general overview of some of the ways that such surveillance operates, pointing to some of the social and political consequences that flow from recognizing t…
Coming to Terms with Shame: Exploring Mediated Visibility against Transgressions
Shaming in a social context is necessarily assembled, as it depends on a loosely and often spontaneously arranged network of actors to convey denunciation. Digital tools further the expansion of such networks, a development that is of particular concern for surveillance scholars. This paper seeks to advance an account of user-led surveillance of peers that is centred on the enactment and experience of shame, notably as such practices can mobilise…
Fear of contact’: Police surveillance through social networks
This paper considers the adoption of social media monitoring (SMM) devices by police forces for surveillance purposes. In particular, it examines the use of MM devices in terms of technical, but also social and normative dimensions for police. While existing scholarship focuses on ‘assemblages’ within social networks that augment the scope and reach of policing institutions, such connectivity also provokes concern in relation to the distribution …
Coming to terms with social media monitoring: Uptake and early assessment
Police and other investigative agencies face new challenges and opportunities with the growth of social media platforms. They can now access several categories of technologies that monitor social media and analyse their content. Social media monitoring is being trialled in a global context, and European Union member states in particular are contemplating the extent to which police should adapt to these investigative technologies. This exploratory…
Mutual Transparency or Mundane Transgressions? Institutional Creeping on Facebook
This article explores the post–secondary sector’s adoption of social media. Social media plays an increasing role in the visibility of personal information. The term refers to a set of web–based services that facilitate the authorship and distribution of media between users. The most popular social media site is Facebook with over 750 million users worldwide. Facebook was originally launched as a service for university students to author and dist…
Leveraging Visibility, Gaining Capital? Social Media Use in the Fight Against Child Abusers: The Case of The Judge Beauce
This article examines the constitutive role of mediated visibility in the emergence of contemporary vigilante initiatives. Here, visibility is conceptualized as a 'heuristic device' to understand social phenomena, as well as a lever for organizations to acquire various forms of capital. The article uses the case of The Judge Beauce-a Canadian organization created in 2015 to fight against child abusers-to understand how vigilante collectives can l…
Mutual Transparency or Mundane Transgressions? Institutional Creeping on Facebook
This article explores the post–secondary sector’s adoption of social media. Social media plays an increasing role in the visibility of personal information. The term refers to a set of web–based services that facilitate the authorship and distribution of media between users. The most popular social media site is Facebook with over 750 million users worldwide. Facebook was originally launched as a service for university students to author and dist…
Interpersonal Surveillance on Social Media
This article examines changing rules and regimes of visibility on social media, using Facebook as a case study. Interpersonal social media surveillance warrants a care of the virtual self. Yet this care is complicated by social media’s rapid growth, and especially Facebook’s cross-contextual information flows that publicize otherwise private information. Drawing from a series of thirty interviews, this article focuses on how users perceive and ma…
Policing Social Media
Les investigations policières sur les médias sociaux sont composées de l'activité individuelle et institutionnelle. Au lieu de supplanter les institutions policières, les utilisateurs individuels augmente son champ d'application, et sont souvent impliqués dans ce processus sans même le savoir. Cela produit une visibilité qui combine le mandat et l'impunité de la police avec les optiques uniques sur la vie quotidienne des individus. Après avoir pr…
America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society
Lisa Nelson, America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society (Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2011), 258 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-01477-9 (hbk), £23.95. The events of September 11 have fue
The business of conversations: Market social media surveillance and visibility
Businesses increasingly rely on social media for personal information, which renders their market more visible. This paper draws on a surveillance studies perspective to consider the growth of market surveillance on social media. Drawing on a series of 13 semi–structured interviews with professionals who use Facebook as a business tool, this paper considers three emerging strategies. Radical transparency imports self–presentation tactics in a cor…
Surveillance and/of Nature
Surveillance is a key aspect of contemporary industrialized Western societies. The now extensive literature on the dynamics of surveillance has, however, curiously overlooked how nonhuman phenomena have been incorporated into quite different surveillance-related agendas. This paper provides a general overview of some of the ways that such surveillance operates, pointing to some of the social and political consequences that flow from recognizing t…
Coming to terms with social media monitoring: Uptake and early assessment
Police and other investigative agencies face new challenges and opportunities with the growth of social media platforms. They can now access several categories of technologies that monitor social media and analyse their content. Social media monitoring is being trialled in a global context, and European Union member states in particular are contemplating the extent to which police should adapt to these investigative technologies. This exploratory…
Open source intelligence, social media and law enforcement: Visions, constraints and critiques
This article considers how recent developments in open source intelligence impact the inclusion of social media data in policing, and how these changes are a reflection of technological affordances by platform developers and private third-party companies, as well as police cultural and institutional constraints. It explores the institutional contexts in which social media open source intelligence is trialled in Europe by drawing on interviews wit…
Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World
While there is a lot of popular and academic interest in social media, this is the first academic work which addresses its growing presence in the surveillance of everyday life. Some scholars have considered its impact on privacy, but these efforts overlook the broader risks for users. Commonsense recommendations of care and vigilance are not enough, as attempts to manage an individual presence are complicated by the features which make social me…
Digital Vigilantism as Weaponisation of Visibility
This paper considers an emerging practice whereby citizen’s use of ubiquitous and domesticated technologies enable a parallel form of criminal justice. Here, weaponised visibility supersedes police intervention as an appropriate response. Digital vigilantism is a user-led violation of privacy that not only transcends online/offline distinctions but also complicates relations of visibility and control between police and the public. This paper deve…
Fear of contact’: Police surveillance through social networks
This paper considers the adoption of social media monitoring (SMM) devices by police forces for surveillance purposes. In particular, it examines the use of MM devices in terms of technical, but also social and normative dimensions for police. While existing scholarship focuses on ‘assemblages’ within social networks that augment the scope and reach of policing institutions, such connectivity also provokes concern in relation to the distribution …
Leveraging Visibility, Gaining Capital? Social Media Use in the Fight Against Child Abusers: The Case of The Judge Beauce
This article examines the constitutive role of mediated visibility in the emergence of contemporary vigilante initiatives. Here, visibility is conceptualized as a 'heuristic device' to understand social phenomena, as well as a lever for organizations to acquire various forms of capital. The article uses the case of The Judge Beauce-a Canadian organization created in 2015 to fight against child abusers-to understand how vigilante collectives can l…
Coming to Terms with Shame: Exploring Mediated Visibility against Transgressions
Shaming in a social context is necessarily assembled, as it depends on a loosely and often spontaneously arranged network of actors to convey denunciation. Digital tools further the expansion of such networks, a development that is of particular concern for surveillance scholars. This paper seeks to advance an account of user-led surveillance of peers that is centred on the enactment and experience of shame, notably as such practices can mobilise…
Scandal mining: Political nobodies and remediated visibility
This article considers the 2015 federal election in Canada as the emergence of seemingly citizen-led practices whereby candidates’ past missteps are unearthed and distributed through social and news media channels. On first pass, these resemble citizen-led engagements through digital media for potentially unmappable political goals, given the dispersed and either non-partisan or multi-partisan nature of these engagements. By bringing together jou…
Denunciation and doxing: Towards a conceptual model of digital vigilantism
Individuals rely on digital media to denounce and shame other individuals. This may serve to seek justice in response to perceived offences, while often reproducing categorical forms of discrimination. Both offence taking and its response are expressed online by gathering and distributing information about targeted individuals. By seeking their own form of social and/or criminal justice, participants may supersede institutions and formal procedur…
Intelligent Personal Assistants and the Intercultural Negotiations of Dataveillance in Platformed Households
The platformization of households is increasingly possible with the introduction of “intelligent personal assistants” (IPAs) embedded in smart, always-listening speakers and screens, such as Google Home and the Amazon Echo. These devices exemplify Zuboff’s “surveillance capitalism” by commodifying familial and social spaces and funneling data into corporate networks. However, the motivations driving the development of these platforms—and the data…
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
MediaMatters is an international book series published by Amsterdam University Press on current debates about emerging and transforming cultural practices that engage with (new) media technologies.Contributions to the series critically analyse and theorise the materiality, spatiality, mobility and performativity of these practices in book projects that engage with today's dynamic digital media culture.MediaMatters focuses on objects and practices…
More Than Meets the Eyes: The Lens of Visibility in Internet Research
The objective of this panel is to examine the analytical and empirical relevance of the “visibility lens” for Internet research. In the past decade, researchers have started to take a specific interest in the constitutive role of online visibility in the organization of social reality. Studies have underlined the fundamental role of visibility afforded by digital technologies in the social recognition or exclusion of individuals, groups, and comm…
“The first combat meme brigade of the Slovak internet”: Hybridization of civic engagement through digital media trolling
This paper analyzes a locally bound and hybridized form of civic engagement through digital media. Based on an explorative case study of a Slovak Facebook page called Zomri, engaged mostly in both mockery and denunciation of societal and political actors, the paper aims to challenge existing conceptual definitions of social media-based civic engagements, pointing to its hybridization. Through in-depth interviews with its founders and a survey of …
Online scrutiny of people with nice cars: A comparative analysis of Chinese, Russian, and Anglo-American outrage
Connected by platforms and equipped with mobile recording devices, social media users are able to conduct near-constant mutual scrutiny. Such mediated scrutiny sometimes escalates to public denunciations online and even mediated or embodied interventions. A recurring theme of such scrutiny can be observed not only on Chinese social media but also on platforms in Russia and elsewhere, in which hostility is openly expressed towards people with nice…
Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Disinformation and Digital Media as a Challenge for Democracy
It would be pleasant to think that democracies will always wake up to their threats - internal and external - and heal themselves in good time before it is too late. [...] Yet, it is not too late to find public policy solutions which can restore information technologies to their original role of facilitators of democracy rather than their undertakers. But the timeframe is closing and we need these solutions sooner rather than later
Introducing digital vigilantism
n More Share Options\nPrevious article\nView issue table of contents\nNext article\nIn Europe and America, political mobilisations have emboldened citizens to monitor and harass individuals based on categories of suspicion, for instance illegal migrants. These mobilisations, in turn, have spawned counter-movements seeking to render perpetrators of hate-speech and harassment visible and accountable. Depending on the cause defended and the politica…
Confronting the digital mob: Press coverage of online justice seeking
This article offers an exploratory account of press coverage of digitally mediated vigilantism. It considers how the UK press renders these events visible in a sustained and meaningful way. News reports and editorials add visibility to these events, and also make them more tangible when integrating content from social media platforms. In doing so, this coverage directs attention to a range of social actors, who may be perceived as responsible for…
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
Trolls for Trump', virtual rape, fake news - social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world - even life-and-death - impact? How can hatred, bullying, and dehumanization on social media platforms be addressed and countered in a post-truth world? This book u…
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (24 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Public relations (18 works) · Social media (15 works) · Internet privacy (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Social Media and Politics (11 works) · Psychology (9 works)