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- Arnesson, Johanna, et al.
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To see and be seen : gynaeopticism and platform surveillance in influencer marketing
- 2023
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In: Everyday life in the culture of surveillance. - Gothenburg : Nordicom. - 9789188855725 - 9789188855732 ; , s. 67-88
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The focal point of this chapter is surveillance practices in relation to social media influencers and digital marketing. The aim is to examine how the idea of surveillance can be expanded to include both social and technological aspects that work at individual, peer, and top-down levels. Drawing on examples from the Swedish influencer industry, we discuss and problematise how surveillance can be understood in such a context and how different dimensions of surveillance are manifested, exploited, and contested. The chapter concludes that participatory and gendered peer- and self-surveillance are an inherent part of influencer culture, and that the commercial success of influencers depends upon these practices. Similarly, platform surveillance and data mining connected to digital advertising can be understood as part of a contemporary commercialised surveillance culture that is closely related to both digital technology and the political economy of the influencer industry.
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- Gelfgren, Stefan, Docent, 1971-, et al.
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Afterword : future directions for surveillance in practice and research
- 2023
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In: Everyday life in the culture of surveillance. - : Nordicom. - 9789188855725 - 9789188855732 ; , s. 205-211
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The contributions in this book shed light on the complexity of surveillance in a digital age and problematise power relations between the many actors involved in the development and performance of surveillance culture. More and more actors and practices play an increasing role in our contemporary digitalised society, and the chapters show how people negotiate surveillance in their use of digital media, often knowingly leaving digital footprints, and sometimes trying to avoid surveillance. The digital transformation will continue in the foreseeable future. The coordination and analysis of data is viewed by many government agencies, corporations, and other actors as important tools for improving public administration, health, and economic growth. For this development to be legitimate, it is important that hard values, such as technical and legal developments, and soft values, such as ethical and cultural values, are taken into consideration.
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- Gelfgren, Stefan, Docent, 1971-, et al.
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Introduction : the complex web of everyday surveillance
- 2023
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In: Everyday life in the culture of surveillance. - : Nordicom. - 9789188855725 - 9789188855732 ; , s. 9-20
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The possibilities to surveil people have increased and been further refined with the implementation of digital communication over the last couple of decades, and with the ongoing process of digital transformation, surveillance can now go in any direction, leaving a label such as “surveillance state” somewhat outdated. Corporations and governmental organisations may surveil people, people may surveil each other, and surveillance may take place in subtle ways that are difficult for the surveilled to detect. In David Lyon’s terms, we are living in a “culture of surveillance”, a culture that surrounds and affects our everyday life. Today, it is of utmost relevance to study people’s attitudes, motives, and behaviours in relation to the fact that we live in a culture of surveillance. This includes the need for cultural and ethical perspectives to understand and nuanced contemporary discussions on surveillance, not least in the highly digitalised context of the Nordic countries. The chapters in this anthology address these issues from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical frameworks.
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- Samuelsson, Lars, 1975-
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Accepting or rejecting online surveillance : the case of Swedish students
- 2023
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In: Everyday life in the culture of surveillance. - : Nordicom. - 9789188855725 - 9789188855732 ; , s. 125-144
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter is based on the results of a questionnaire that was distributed to students at Umeå University, Sweden, and investigates their propensity to accept online surveillance in relation to three conditions that could increase their acceptance of it: 1) that it results in personal benefits; 2) that they have consented to it; and 3) that society can benefit from it. To categorise the respondents’ positions, I use a conceptual apparatus from moral philosophy, namely, the distinction between deontological and consequentialist ethical views. The study reveals two clear tendencies among the respondents: The most considerable difference among them is a difference in their general attitudes to being surveilled online rather than a difference in ethical thinking of a kind that can be framed in terms of deontology and consequentialism; the personal benefits that can result from allowing online surveillance do not generally have any significant impact on their acceptance of it.
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- Samuelsson, Lars, 1975-, et al.
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Preface
- 2023
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In: Everyday life in the culture of surveillance. - : Nordicom. - 9789188855725 - 9789188855732 ; , s. 6-8
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Stenström, Kristina, 1984-
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Tracking (in)fertile bodies : Intimate data in the culture of surveillance
- 2023
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In: Everyday life in the culture of surveillance. - : Nordicom. - 9789188855725 - 9789188855732 ; , s. 89-108
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Surveillance culture promotes self-improvement through quantified self-knowledge. Digital devices and mobile apps are developed for self-tracking practices, and individuals collect and analyse data about their bodies and habits for numerous purposes. One area of self-tracking involves fertility tracking, through which women track symptoms and signs relating to their menstrual cycle, also called intimate surveillance. Previous research has shown that self-tracking technologies and software often leak data and affect and (re)produce understandings and knowledges of (female) bodies. This chapter explores the following: What are the imaginaries and practices of intimate surveillance among women who use digital apps or wearables to self-monitor their fertility? Through eleven interviews with women who engage in fertility self-tracking, I found multilayered motives and understandings in relation to self-tracking practices, where potential risks are appreciated. Simultaneously, the possibility of fertility self-tracking is seen as a general positive that enables self-knowledge and a sense of empowerment and ownership.
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