The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media
ORCID ID
0000-0001-6827-9405
Document Type
Book
ISBN
978-1-5381-4431-2
Publication Date
2-2021
Keywords
Philosophy, Movements, Phenomenology, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description
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.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Ethics and Political Philosophy | Philosophy
NSUWorks Citation
Weissman, Jeremy. The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.