2. Interactive media theory where an infrastructure focusing on
content creation, management, and dissemination is built for the
user to generate that content in a community framework.
Urban Dictionary falls under the Web 2.0 theory because they built an
infrastructure to create, manage, and disseminate the definition of
slang terms generated by the user and ranked by the community.
Jason D. Schwartz, (2006), Urban Dictionary,
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=web%202.0
Web 2.0
3. Web 2.0 surveillance is a form of surveillance that exerts
power and domination by making use specific qualities
of the contemporary Internet, such as user-generated
content and permanent dynamic communication flows.
Christian Fuchs, (2011), Sociology Compass 5/2
Surveillance
4. Modes of Surveillance
: Use of accounts, database logs, information submitted
and sold to survey a persons background and interests.
: Private information regarding credit cards and banking are
stored on a database, along with every trace of purchase and
customer reviews.
: Similarly to Facebook, Spotify stores all information inserted by
the user into a large database so the program can recommend
music tracks for the listener close to their tastes.
5. - Highly useful for corporations to examine audiences
and potential markets.
- User trends can be examined through online
databases.
- Advertising campaigns can be launched to specific
audiences based on user account preferences and
personal details.
The Benefits of Online Surveillance
6. The Benefits of Online Surveillance
- Legislation has ruled across many nations that online
law enforcement is an essential source to prevent
International terror.
- Telecommunication companies such as BT use online
surveillance to track usage on a daily or monthly scale
in order to cut costs and track key usage times.
7. - Incidents such as the phone hacking scandal.
- Lack of privacy in the public sphere. i.e. Facebook and
online shopping.
- Rise of hacking online and private information
obtained. E.g. PSN hacking scandal.
- As technology develops further surveillance will get
tighter and more frequent thus creating a ‘robotic
society’.
The Negatives of Online Surveillance
10. - According to The Telegraph,
the UK has approximately 5.9
Million CCTV Cameras
- Numbers are growing all the
time and can be said to be a
benefit in crime prevention.
- Most CCTV operations are run
privately as opposed to
governmental legislation.
- Some of the public will argue
the increase is an invasion of
privacy.
CCTV
11. CCTV has even been proven by anti CCTV companies
such as the ACLU to reduce property crime to reduce
property crime and premeditated crime.
Such studies have shown that as a result of this
decline, car theft has reduced significantly.
Useful in private businesses.
Retail markets have also benefitted from this, not just
in the case of theft with the goods that are sold, but
also, employees and employers are protected from
false allegations.
Issues and Benefits
12. The reduction of theft is not that simple, studies have
proven that crime has increased substantially in areas
where there are no CCTV cameras.
‘Protection vs Privacy’ (Dunn, 2009)
There will always be battle between human rights and
protection, several protests have gone ignored on the
issue of CCTV Surveillance.
Issues and Benefits
14. In particular, mobile phones have been issued to
many debates of controversy over the extent to
which calls and conversations are monitored by law
enforcements and governmental forces.
In 1998, it was found by the American Management
Association that 43% of global companies tap phone
conversations, as well as e-mail threads etc.
Telecommunication
