Crowdsourced Panopticon
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A01=Jeremy Weissman
Author_Jeremy Weissman
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Communication
control
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freedom
global community
information
media
online
privacy
social media
surveillance
technology
trolling
Product details
- ISBN 9781538174098
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 151 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jeremy Weissman is assistant professor in philosophy at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
