Media, Surveillance and Identity Social Perspectives
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André 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.«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)<br /> «In this well-timed volume, André 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)<br /> «In this well-timed volume, André 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)