The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media

Weissman, Jeremy

ISBN 10: 153817409X / ISBN 13: 9781538174098

Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022

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• Titolo: The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 153817409X
• ISBN 13: 9781538174098
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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