Archive for the 'Netaveillance' Category
4S: Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0
Thursday, October 11th, 2007I am currently attending the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Montreal. Earlier today I had the pleasure of participating on a panel I co-organized with Anders Albrechtslund titled, “Ways Knowing Everything About Each Other: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 and Social Networking.”
Here are the first few paragraphs of my […]
Perspectives on Surveillance
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Related to my earlier mention of the challenges of relying on Panoptic theory to talk about surveillance, Anders Albrechtslund has posted an informal taxonomy of “21 perspectives on surveillance“:
The Big Brother perspective
Surveillance is a scary way for the state to intrude on people’s privacy. Currently, we are on a slippery slope towards a surveillance society.
The […]
Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0: Unintended Consequences and the Rise of “Netaveillance”
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007[This thought piece appears on the On The Identity Trail project’s blog, blog*on*nymity. Thanks to the amazing folks there for the (second) invitation to contribute to the project. -mz]
This post is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts on how the rise of so-called Web 2.0 technologies bear on privacy and surveillance studies. After […]




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