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    Control, Surveillance and Subjective Commodification on Facebook

    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