Little mermaids and pro-sumers
The dilemma of authenticity and surveillance in hybrid public spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12898929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Owens (0009-0005-6744-4604, University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author), Robert Imre (University of Newcastle Australia) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 470-483 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Communication Gazette (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1748048513491897 |
| OpenAlex | W2133065442 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
In this article the authors explore the ways in which social media and social network sites (SNSs) are mediating the new urban environment. Many analyses of these technologies highlight the ways in which they are predicated on surveillance techniques and how the self is increasingly entwined within them. The authors examine the processes of surveillance, and the surveillant assemblage, and how the self interacts with these technologies to produce an authentic self in mediated urban spaces. They argue that SNS technologies privilege a version of the contemporary self, limiting choice to ‘pro-sumer’ activity, and a mandatory self-surveillance. Instead of constructing an open public sphere, these technologies operate to build a ‘second city’ of commodified urban space in which the recording of banal activities in an everyday setting is the authentic lived experience of people using this technology
Aesthetics · Architectural engineering · Art · Assemblage (archaeology · Commodification · Computer security · Emerging technologies · Everyday life · Internet privacy · Limiting · Lived experience · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Public relations · Public space · Public sphere · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
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Online social networking as participatory surveillance
All the World Wide Web’s a stage
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New Media, Web 2.0 and Surveillance
The Work of Watching One Another
Production, Consumption, Prosumption
Fitting In and Sticking Out’
Surveillance on Reality Television and Facebook
An invisible life? A response to Mark Deuze’s ‘Media life’
The unseen disappearance of invisible media
Class, knowledge and new media
Media life
A thousand plateaus
Governmentality
The surveillant assemblage
Alienation, Exploitation, and Social Media
Theorizing Surveillance
The post-panoptic society? Reassessing Foucault in surveillance studies
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
Between Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2016 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |