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Before Smart Phones and Social Media: Exploring Camera Phones and User-Generated Images in the 2000s

Before Smart Phones and Social Media: Exploring Camera Phones and User-Generated Images in the 2000s

Bilge Yesil
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781466685536|ISBN10: 1466685530|EISBN13: 9781466685543
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8553-6.ch008
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Yesil, Bilge. "Before Smart Phones and Social Media: Exploring Camera Phones and User-Generated Images in the 2000s." Management and Participation in the Public Sphere, edited by Mika Markus Merviö, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 170-190. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8553-6.ch008

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Yesil, B. (2015). Before Smart Phones and Social Media: Exploring Camera Phones and User-Generated Images in the 2000s. In M. Merviö (Ed.), Management and Participation in the Public Sphere (pp. 170-190). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8553-6.ch008

Chicago

Yesil, Bilge. "Before Smart Phones and Social Media: Exploring Camera Phones and User-Generated Images in the 2000s." In Management and Participation in the Public Sphere, edited by Mika Markus Merviö, 170-190. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8553-6.ch008

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Abstract

Using social media platforms to document excessive police force at times of social unrest has become common practice among protestors around the world, from Cairo, Egypt to Ferguson, USA. Smart phones and social media have become indispensable tools to demonstrators as they organize, communicate, express dissent, and document any police brutality aimed at them. This chapter discusses the function of mobile communication technology as tool of sousveillance through an analysis of camera phones and the user-generated images in the mid-to-late 2000s. It argues that camera phones facilitated lateral surveillance and sousveillance practices, enabling ordinary individuals to watch social peers or those in power positions, albeit in non-systematic, non-continuous and spontaneous ways.

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