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gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment

potentially empowering, subjectivity building and even playful

suurveillance, which can empower – and not necessarily violate – the user.

cyberspace is not constrained by the same laws as physical space (Shirky, 2005)

user and the user’s friends fill out their space by providing information in the form of text, images, audio and video.

Vast majority of teens (82 percent) provides their real first name for their profile [1].

pictures of themselves and their friends as well as the name of their hometown.

Geotagging

new relation between cyberspace and physical places

mobile social software

facilitate social, romantic or business encounters by associating time and location data to online social networks

Whereas cyberspace is an abstract, virtual space, the geographical places are not.

cyberspace offers the opportunity to construct an identity beyond bodily presence

online social networking as a mediated public

persistency, searchability, replicability and invisible audiences (boyd, 2007a)

stored indefinitely

available for later scrutiny

invisible audience of online social networking

mediated publics are obviously not private

Jon Callas,

I am continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves” (quoted in Marks, 2006).

offended by the frankness in communication and, perhaps, carelessness that some people, especially youngsters, display with regard to their personal privacy.

When youngsters lead a life in mediated publics, the fear is that their adolescent thoughts, musings and immature actions might become a millstone around their neck, since the information will be embarrassingly accessible later on. One such speculation has to do with getting a job in adult life (Tribble, 2005a; 2005b).

hat is the purpose of broadcasting one’s unfiltered thoughts to the whole wired world.”

Big Brother and Panopticon,

do not seem to adequately describe the actual practice of online social networking.

illustrate a vertical, hierarchical power relation between the gaze of the watcher that controls the watched.

surveillance is also part of the destruction of subjectivity under surveillance and an effort to render lifeworld meaningless.

electronic panopticon (Lyon, 1994) and superpanopticon (Poster, 1990; 1996

David Lyon (2006) entitled Theorizing surveillance: The panopticon and beyond

challenge the hierarchical conception of surveillance.

Mark Andrejevic who has introduced the concept lateral surveillance:

peer–to–peer monitoring

the use of surveillance tools by individuals

Romantic interests, family, and friends or acquaintances.”