Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure
Abstract
Popular portrayals of ubiquitous computing downplay the surveillance implications of emerging forms of networked interactivity. This essay supplements such accounts by analyzing interactive spaces as digital enclosures which restrict access to the means of interaction to those who “freely” submit to the detailed forms of monitoring that take place within them. It supplements privacy-based critiques of surveillance with questions about the ownership and control of such data and the implications of this control for networked communication.
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Through algorithmic curation and interface architecture, platforms create engagement and extract value through the datafication of user interactions, inevitably creating a digital enclosure where traditionally public goods are increasingly governed by proprietary interests.
“Through algorithmic curation and interface architecture, platforms create engagement and extract value through the datafication of user interactions (MayerSch¨ onberger and Cukier, 2013; Mejias and Couldry, 2019; Van Dijck, 2014), inevitably creating a digital enclosure where traditionally public goods are increasingly governed by proprietary interests (Andrejevic, 2007; Boyle, 2008; P´ elissier,”
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- Authors
- Andrejevic, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Iowa (US)
- Corresponding author
- Andrejevic, Mark
- ORCID
- Andrejevic, Mark
- Venue
- The Communication Review
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2007-12-05
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 295-317
- ISSN
- 1071-4421 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-7487
- OpenAlex
- W1974384133
- Cited by
- 334
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Communication Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Social Sciences › Communication › Cultural Studies and Postmodernism
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- surveillance, ubiquitous computing, digital enclosure, privacy, data ownership, data control, networked communication, monitoring, interactive environments
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