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Lemi Baruh & Levent Soysal Kadir Has University

Lemi Baruh & Levent Soysal Kadir Has University. Background & Problem. Rise of social media: “Empowering” individuals to express themselves Prerequisite: disclosure of intimate details Discussions regarding threats to individual privacy Control over identification information

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Lemi Baruh & Levent Soysal Kadir Has University

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  1. Lemi Baruh & Levent Soysal Kadir Has University

  2. Background & Problem • Rise of social media: • “Empowering” individuals to express themselves • Prerequisite: disclosure of intimate details • Discussions regarding threats to individual privacy • Control over identification information • Fraud & data security • Protection of underage users’ privacy (from sexual predators) • Institutions snooping around • Kansas University penalizes students after perusing Facebook photos of dorm parties. • Microsoft checks Facebook pages of potential employees. 2

  3. Background & Problem • Most studies on privacy implications of social media adopted a piecemeal approach: • In isolation from each other and the broader context of a changing regime of surveillance • Purpose: • Investigate two related trends and their relationship to social media • Rise of personal, intimate and the subjective as a social currency • Evolving nature of automated surveillance 3

  4. The New Individual: Image Laborer “Professionals in pursuit of image” • Ulrich Beck’s Reflexive Modernity: • The self became the primary agent of meaning. • Objective, institution driven information loses credence as the currency of information derived from subjective & personal experience increases. • Phantasmagoric Workplace* • The individual is responsible for maintaining his/her own image constantly. • Having a unique image, being recognized is a crucial prerequisite of success in contemporary capitalism *Hearn, Alison. 2006. 'John, a 20-year old Boston native with a great sense of humour': on the spectacularization of the 'self' and the incorporation of identity in the age of reality television. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 2 (2):131-147. 5

  5. The New Individual: Image Laborer 4 5

  6. The New Individual: Image 6 6

  7. Modular Identity of the New Individual • Introversive Publicity • Individuals with introversive personality are characterized as being introspective. • Self expression of subjective experience in social media, despite its public nature, is introspective. • It is part of the image labor, and hence it is an act of publicity. • This does not mean it is intended to mislead • It is modular • This does not mean it is incoherent. • Each component added helps create and communicate a unique identity. • The introversive is temporary, incomplete and fleeting 7

  8. Self Disclosure & Privacy Rights • In an environment of extensive surveillance, self-disclosure is seen as the only viable way for individuals to actively participate in the creation of images about themselves* • Example: Dr. Hasan Elahi (www.trackingtransience.net) *Groombridge, N. (2002). Crime control or crime culture TV?. Surveillance and Society, 1, 30-36. *Koskela, H. (2004). Webcams, TV shows and mobile phones: Empowering exhibitionism. Surveillance & Society, 2(2/3), 200-215. 9

  9. Contemporary Surveillance • Data intensive. Social and other forms of interactive media provide an increasingly larger share of data. • Data mining – algorithm based detection of deviations from the base statistic* • Three innocuous acts combined, who knows if they are a threat? • The components of the modular self are taken out of their context. *Andrejevic, M. (2007). iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 10

  10. From Panopticon to… • The panopticon’s disciplinary function is partly dependent on uncertainty • “Chilling effect” 11

  11. Kafkaesque Surveillance* *Solove, D. J. (2001). Privacy and power: Computer databases and metaphors for information privacy. Stanford Law Review, 53, 1393-1462. 12

  12. Kafkaesque Surveillance* • Permanency of data • Aura of Objectivity: Rationalization of surveillance through automated mining • “...figure of the vicious tyrant is replaced by that of the indifferent bureaucrat.”** • Automated data-mining dehumanizes and consequently “removes human bias”. • The automated surveillant is indifferent and hence its inferences are “objective” • Reliance on statistical evidence adds to this aura of objectivity *Solove, D. J. (2001). Privacy and power: Computer databases and metaphors for information privacy. Stanford Law Review, 53, 1393-1462. **Mark Andrejevic. iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007 15

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