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Internet and Surveillance
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Internet and Surveillance

by Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval
June 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
332 pages
11h 58m
English
Routledge
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2   Critique of the Political Economy of Web 2.0 Surveillance

Christian Fuchs

2.1. INTRODUCTION

Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Blogspot/Blogger, Wordpress, Twitter, Flickr—these are just some of the World Wide Web platforms that have become popular in recent years. Blogs, wikis, file-sharing platforms, and social networking platforms are some of the techno-social systems that shape Internet experiences of users in contemporary society. Scholars, the media, and parts of the public claim that the Internet has become more social, more participatory, and more democratic (see Fuchs 2010b). These claims might be overdrawn, techno-optimistic ideologies. E-mail technology was created in the early 1970s, and has for a long time been the most popular and ...

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ISBN: 9780415891608