Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Control, Surveillance and Subjective Commodification on Facebook

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Revoy, Spencer, Thesis advisor (ths): Mitchell, Liam, Degree committee member (dgc): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): Murakami Wood, David, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis is a theoretical study of Facebook's surveillance project. It begins by taking one of the predominant organizational forms of modern surveillance, Foucaultian panopticism, and examining the ways in which its form, along with Foucault's broader model of the disciplinary society, is realized, remixed and extended by Facebook's virtual form. Following this… more
Full Text: CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE AND SUBJECTIVE COMMODIFICATION ON FACEBOOK A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences TRENT UNIVERSITY …