Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World, Ashgate Daniel Trottier, Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University, Sweden This book develops a surveillance studies approach to social media by presenting first hand ethnographic research with a variety of personal and professional social media users. Using Facebook as a case-study, it describes growing monitoring practices that involve social media. What makes this study unique is that it not only considers social media surveillance as multi-purpose, but also shows how these different purposes augment one another, leading to a rapid spread of surveillance and visibility. ‘Internet platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google have become very popular in recent years. They process, store, analyse, and commodify a lot of personal data, usage behaviour data, communication data, and social network data. Daniel Trottier’s book is a crucial and critical resource and must-read for all who want to understand the implications social media has for surveillance at the interpersonal and institutional level and for surveillance conducted by companies and the police.’ – Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden ‘Social media are not just sites that we visit, but increasingly places where we reside. Such spaces are manufactured to augment surveillance, fostering types of visibility that are central to new forms of sociality and power relations. Professor Trottier’s book is an invaluable analysis of how a complex assortment of groups are making a home in this new domain of interactive monitoring.’ – Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta, Canada ‘Looking for a wide-ranging, well-informed, up-to-date critical sociology of social media surveillance, focused on the Facebook phenomenon? This is it.’ – David Lyon, Queen’s University, Canada More info and sample pages available at: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409438892 To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com All online orders receive a discount