The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781538174098)

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.

Author: Jeremy Weissman
ISBN-10: 153817409X
ISBN-13: 9781538174098
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2022
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d