Facebook at uni: mutual surveillance and a sense of belonging

Title: Facebook at uni: mutual surveillance and a sense of belonging
Creator: Kibby, Marjorie D.; Fulton, Janet
Relation: An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World's Largest Social Network p. 111-120
Relation: http://www.sponpress.com/books/details/9780415713191/
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: Surveillance usually has negative connotations of intrusion, control, and privacy invasion. However, participatory surveillance can be seen as empowering rather than violating users (Albrechtslund, 2008) in that it provides information that can increase cultural capital. Mutual surveillance on Facebook is a social act that facilitates connections and an analysis of the discourse on the "People Sleeping at Newcastle University" Facebook page shows students chosing social cohesion over privacy in a number of ways. They identify themselves in anonymous photographs, respond to posted images with explanations and excuses for on their on-campus naps, and share advice on the most comformtable sleeping spots and the most ennui-inducing courses and lecturers. Students offer themselves up for surveillance and in doing so establish a presence in the university community.
Subject: social media; social networks; higher education
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064598
Identifier: uon:17602
Identifier: ISBN:9780415713191
Language: eng

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