The Crowdsourced Panopticon

Conformity and Control on Social Media

Jeremy Weissman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

158 Seiten

2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4431-2 (ISBN)

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Behind the omnipresent screens of our laptops and smartphones, a digitally networked public has quickly grown larger than the population of any nation on Earth. On the flipside, in front of the ubiquitous recording devices that saturate our lives, individuals are hyper-exposed through a worldwide online broadcast that encourages the public to watch, judge, rate, and rank people’s lives. The interplay of these two forces - the invisibility of the anonymous crowd and the exposure of the individual before that crowd - is a central focus of this book. Informed by critiques of conformity and mass media by some of the greatest philosophers of the past two centuries, as well as by a wide range of historical and empirical studies, Weissman helps shed light on what may happen when our lives are increasingly broadcast online for everyone all the time, to be judged by the global community.

Jeremy Weissman is assistant professor in philosophy at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.

Introduction
Part I: Conformity

1. The Human Animal in Civilized Society
2. Social Media as an Escape from Freedom
3. Meaninglessness in the Present Age

Part II: Control
4. The Spectacular Power of the Public
5. 'P2P' Surveillance and Control
6. The Net of Noramlization

Part III: Resistance
7. Freedom from the Public Eye
8. Strategies of Resistance
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 241 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-5381-4431-X / 153814431X
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-4431-2 / 9781538144312
Zustand	Neuware