Kategorie: Internet/social media

Im Rahmen der britischen JISC Initiative Living Books about Live – ist ein open access Buch zum Thema Ubiquitous Surveillance erschienen.

While not everyone in the late 90s could be characterized as a cyberutopian, the dominant mood harbored a sense that the digital network would bring with it newfound, unregulatable freedoms […..] Flash forward fifteen years and the present looks significantly different from the one envisioned in the 1990s. Instead of a future of Second Life and virtual worlds, we ended up building one that more closely resembles Minority Report. Advances in technology, an increasingly regulated and monitored digital network, and a general atmosphere of securitization have yielded a world of ubiquitous, if not always visible, surveillance.

Der Inhaltverzeichnis liest sich gut und weckt die Neugier – vor allem weil es sich um Autoren und thematische Perspektiven handelt, die nicht so oft prominent vorkommen – hauptsächlich aus einem eher technische, Computer, Mensch-Maschinen-Interface, Medien Kontext. Vor allem geht es um Mobile Anwendungen und die Folgen und Konsequenzen im Zusammenhang mit Ãœberwachung. Es könnte sich also durchaus lohnen.

Die Kollegen Cjristian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtsl und  Marisol Sandoval haben ein Buch zum Internet und den Herausforderungen hinsichtlich der Überwachung herausgegeben:

Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media.

2011, New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-89160-8. EU, COST Publication. 332 pages.

Here, contributors explore this changing landscape by addressing topics such as commercial data collection by advertising, consumer sites and interactive media; self-disclosure in the social web; surveillance of file-sharers; privacy in the age of the internet; civil watch-surveillance on social networking sites; and networked interactive surveillance in transnational space.

Das e-Journal Digital Icons hat seine 3. Ausgabe dem Thema Ãœberwachung gewidmet und kann online hier gelesen werden:

Between Big Brother and the Digital Utopia: e-Governance in Post-Totalitarian Space

Aus dem Editorial:

The third issue of Digital Icons explores the practice of e-participation and e-governance in post-Soviet, post-communist countries, focusing on three main geographical areas, Central Europe (Slovakia), Russia, and Central Asia. e-Governance is understood in broad terms as a multi-faceted phenomenon that encompasses (un-)regulated socio-political and cultural practices that foster public debate, facilitate community building and ensure transparency and accountability of official and alternative actors of power.