Social Media as Surveillance

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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.

Social Media as Surveillance Review

[this review first appeared in First Monday, Volume 18, Number 4 - 1 April 2013]

Social media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have become "information warehouses", processing, storing, and analyzing a wide range of personal, communication and usage behavior data. Daniel Trottier's book Social media as surveillance is a great resource for readers to understand social media surveillance at the interpersonal or institutional levels, where "surveillance" has been conducted by individuals, companies, or the government agencies in the virtual world.

This book discusses risks posed by social media surveillance for information users far beyond privacy concerns, hence traditional "care and vigilance" is inefficient. Thus, attempts to manage individual or institutional online presence are significantly complicated by social media. For example, Facebook friends routinely expose each other, and such information transfers from one context to another, even though the "targets" say nothing about themselves.

Social media as surveillance presents empirical research with a range of personal and professional social media users (such as individuals, institutions, marketers, and police agencies). Using Facebook as a case study, Trottier describes rapidly growing multi-purpose social media monitoring practices. Such scrutiny activities augment one another and lead to a quick spread of online information (visibility), which is vital for new sociality and power relations.

Trottier's research collects data through detailed interviews with interested parties, such as students, university employees, businesses owners, and police. These interviewees not only reveal how social media is used as surveillance tools, but also discover what is happening and what people think might be happening now. The book gives an insight into both the positive and the negative sides of the social media surveillance issue, as well as some early warnings to future developments.

Trottier examines four different aspects of surveillance: interpersonal surveillance (through which people monitor each other); institutional surveillance (through which institutions,i.e., universities or employers, watch over their students or employees); market surveillance (through which businesses track their customers, potential customers, or even random Web surfers) and policing surveillance (through which authorities might spy on technically anything).

The book devotes a chapter to each aspect. First, students emerge as both spies and the spied-on, which are aware of both aspects. They know and dislike being "scanned" by their parents, potential employers, exes and friends, but they accept it and see Facebook as something they have to be on. The interviewees also change online and off-line behaviors due to their awareness of personal surveillance activities.

Chapters on the role of institutions and businesses are dedicated to organizational efforts to work out what is going on and how to deal with social media. However, issues suggested by the interviews might be unrepresentative. The chapter on policing social media shows complex challenges for authorities, such as self-policing by online community members, policing by consent, police visibility and outreach, undercover activities online, etc.

More interestingly, the first two chapters of this book are theoretical and include an extensive literature review, which help readers become familiar with topics discussed in later chapters. I agree with the author's conclusion: social media surveillance is an important subject becoming more relevant in the near future. The concluding section also asks some open-ended questions, which might become "launching pads" for future studies.

Individual, institutional, market, security and intelligence forms of surveillance co-exist with each other on social media. Therefore, this book is an invaluable analysis of the new domain of interactive monitoring. Compared with Facebook, Twitter might be an ideal platform to analyze public opinion (another area for further research). However, for some countries, such as China, Weibo (micro-blogging at [...]) plays a much more prominent role than Facebook and Twitter.

In the mean time, social media has been experiencing some significant changes since the author completed his interviews, such as "real name" and "real deletion" issues. In the policing chapters, the increasing use of prosecutions or police reactions for certain social media activities merit more discussion. On the other hand, this book's interviews were largely conducted in Canada, which might also become a concern for readers from other regions.

No one can afford to ignore the power of social media. Information needs and behaviors studies will focus on social media, thanks to the development of new technology. As an instructor of library and information science, I recommend Trottier's book for MLIS students, librarians, and other information professionals (i.e., data/business intelligence analyst). They will find a great deal of practical information in this work, especially related to data collection and analysis issues, based on Trottier's research. -- Yijun Gao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University.

Copyright � 2013, First Monday.

Review of Social media as surveillance: Rethinking visibility in a converging world
by Yijun Gao.

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Construction Materials

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Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of this popular textbook continues to provide a comprehensive coverage of the main construction materials for undergraduate students of civil engineering and construction related courses. It creates an understanding of materials and how they perform through a knowledge of their chemical and physical structure, leading to an ability to judge their behaviour in service and construction. Materials covered include; metals and alloys, concrete, bituminous materials, brickwork and blockwork, polymers and fibre composites. Each material is discussed in terms of: structure; strength and failure; durability; deformation; practice and processing. The sections on concrete, polymers and fibre composites have been significantly revised. Descriptions of important properties are related back to the structure and forward to basic practical considerations. With its wealth of illustrations and reader-friendly style and layout Construction Materials, third edition is ideal both for students on construction-related courses and for professionals in civil engineering and other related disciplines.

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I teach a materials science course to Civil Engineering students and have had a hard time finding a book that covers the material science of our industry. This does so in a very complete and technically detailed way while remaining readable and affordable. As a textbook it lacks question and assignment sets, but otherwise it is great - highly recommend it.

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Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics

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Engineers encounter different types of contracts at nearly every turn in their careers. Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics is a tool to enhance their ability to communicate contractual issues to lawyers� and then better understand the legal advice they receive. Building on its exploration of contracts, this book expands discussion to: Patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property issues Development of standards and the bodies that govern them, as well as conformity assessment and accreditation Ethics at both the micro and macro levels� a concept under major scrutiny after several major disasters, including the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the collapse of Boston� s Big Dig, and a coal-mining accident that resulted in many deaths With a brief introduction to common law contracts and their underlying principles, including basic examples, the book presents a sample of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) regarding the sale of goods. It evaluates elements of the different contracts that engineers commonly encounter, such as employee and associated consulting agreements and contracts involved in construction and government. Approaching intellectual property from a contract perspective, this reference focuses on the many different types of patents and their role in commerce. It touches on the application of trademarks and recent developments in the use of copyright as a form of contract and explains the process of obtaining patents, including the rationale for investing in them. Ethical standards receive special attention, which includes a review of several prominent professional codes of ethics and conduct for both organizations and individual engineers, particularly officers and higher-level managers.

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This is an excellent and comprehensive book on contracts and related formal matters of concern to all practicing engineers. In my opinion, the book should always be reachable at arms length. In addition to coverage of all types of contracts that one is apt to encounter, there is valuable and quite thorough introduction and discussion of patent processes and intellectual property concerns, and of standards, conformity, accreditation, and ethics. All of the various topics are covered with sufficient detail to provide a good understanding, while avoiding detail that would tend to clutter; thus providing the reader with answers to most questions he might have, together with useful guidance toward sources of more information and/or legal advice that might be needed.

Bob Hunter writes with a learned confidence and with exceptional clarity. In addition to his thoughtful and careful technical coverage of the topics at hand, he offers discussions of historical background on certain topics, and he describes some interesting example cases to illustrate issues and points of the discussion.

Although the book is mainly intended for practicing engineers, it is certainly of value to any other professionals or business operators of all kinds. In fact, none of us can exist very long without encountering contracts of one kind or another; and Bob Hunter's book provides very useful information that is applicable to such contracts.

In my experience, this book is the 'one of its kind'.

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Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach (New Directions in Social Work)

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For use as a text in foundations generalist social policy courses, either at the baccalaureate or master� s level, this book examines the process of defining need, analyzing social policy, and developing new policy. A clear philosophical base and a common theoretical framework underlie the discussion of each component of the policy process. Four themes are interwoven throughout the book: the importance of thinking critically about social policy, the benefits of using the strengths perspective in policy analysis and development, the critical role social policy plays in all areas of practice, and the absolute responsibility of every social worker to engage in policy practice.

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This book is pretty good - it has lots of visuals and breakdowns to help the reader to retain the information and to make it interesting. It also goes into just the right amount of detail about policy and practice, in my opinion. Sometimes the data is a little out of date, but not too much so to make relevant points and lessons.

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McGraw-Hill conducted extensive market research with students from across the nation to gain insight into their studying and buying behavior. Students told us they wanted more portable texts with innovative visual appeal and content that is designed according to the way they learn. We also surveyed instructors, and they told us they wanted a way to engage their students without compromising on high quality content.

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Ethnicity and the Persistence of Inequality: The Case of Peru (Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity)

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Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Inequality between indigenous groups and others has been particularly harsh and persistent. This book applies a truly interdisciplinary approach to the specific case of Peru, seeking out the dynamics of the interactions between the society, the polity, the geography and the economy. Ethnic discrimination and prejudice emerge as central themes, explored through people's own perceptions and life experiences. The book attempts to extend the boundaries of our understanding and contributes to the growing interest in ethnicity and conflict by developing and exploring the interactions between institutions and the inequalities between groups.

Ethnicity and the Persistence of Inequality: The Case of Peru (Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity) Review

Nobody would doubt Professor Thorp's authority and commitment with Peruvian studies. I would not hesitate in buying her book. However, I would like to mention that at an over 68 dollars price, the target customers for this work are not college students. I teach a class on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America and it frustrates me to realize that I would not be able to assign it because it would take more than half of the meager budget a college student has for books. College libraries are walking away from acquiring highly specialized books in the social sciences, such as this. We are in a crisis and the academic world is feeling it all over.
My second concern about professor Thorp's book is its time-frame. The book ends with the Fujimori's Era, that is, with the first and most severe stage in the implementation of the neoliberal program. Eleven extremely significant years have gone by. During these years, the Peruvian GNP has multiplied, regions are electing their own representatives who in turn are administering the taxes monies from the mining companies operating in their territories. Personal income has gone from over 2 thousand dollars/year to five thousand/year only in the last 4 years. Granted, the basic issues of state racism and the neglect of the indigenous people remains. However, an extensive literature on poverty and poverty control grounded on the examples of Brazil, Chile and Mexico has inspired a new management style approach to social programs during the Garcia administration. This literature and its outcomes need to be critically examined, the tension between economic development against growth remains. These isolated efforts to placate the major contradictions of the neoliberal model in terms of poverty along with the state's authoritarian/technocratic view of natural resources located in the natural habitat of the indigenous people are the major contradictions of the 21st century which, unfortunately, this very expensive book does not address.

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