Surveillance Of Social Media Analysis

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In this day and age we have become a surveillance society where individuals and groups record, store and analyse information as we got about our daily lives (Surveillance Studies Network, n.a). From its original use the camera phone has become extremely important and plays a key role in today’s surveillance society, through social media platform .These platforms have lead us to survey not only ourselves but others too, with the convergence of the camera phone and social media we can actively record and analyse memories for future reflection and publish media content, although the camera phone serves a great purpose, there has been countless debates over the invasion of privacy.
Although the topic is under great debate, the first ever camera …show more content…

When capturing moments with family and friends and posting onto a social media platform certain information can already be seen like who is in your circle and what you guys do etc. We tell stories about our lives through the act of capturing pictures and publishing them online. Often pictures of these sorts capture moments that we can later reflect on so we can remember ourselves in that moment. People often use pictures of this sort to remind us about “what has been as well as what is and what will be”. In this sense we take pictures that we can later review our memories like we were reviewing data.
We also actively monitor ourselves when we take “selfies” – pictures of ourselves. After taking a picture we may review it and assess it, there is often this reason to retake the picture to get a better one, this is related back to our definition of surveillance, we are observing ourselves in order to change the manner in which we took the picture to get better results. We also get feedback from publishing pictures on social media platforms through “likes” and comments which may force us to be more conscious when we take pictures thus affecting our behaviour when taking

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