The Crowdsourced Panopticon: Conformity and Control on Social Media - Hardcover

Jeremy Weissman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 153814431X ISBN 13: 9781538144312

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jeremy Weissman is currently the Mudd Postdoctoral Ethics Fellow at the Roger Mudd Center at Washington and Lee University where he s researching the ethics of emerging technologies. Jeremy received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina and an M.A. in Public Policy from The George Washington University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 153814431X
• ISBN 13: 9781538144312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208