CHRISTIAN FUCHS - ICT&S - Universität Salzburg

Christian Fuchs. Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society. A Critical CaseStudy of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in theContext of Electronic Surveillance.Published 2009, by Forschungsgruppe Unified Theory of Information (Research GroupUnified Theory of Information).Salzburg and Vienna, Austria. ISBN 978-3-200-01428-2.This study was conducted at the University of Salzburg, ICT&S CenterChristian FuchsUniversity of SalzburgICT&S CenterSigmund Haffner Gasse 185020 SalzburgCreative Commons License. This work is licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Austria License.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/at/deed.enYou are free:to Share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workUnder the following conditions:Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in anyway that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.* For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The bestway to do this is with a link to this web page.* Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.* Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.Christian Fuchs is an Austrian scholar who focuses on media and information societyresearch. He holds a venia docendi in ICTs and society-research, is author of manyscholarly papers, and of the book “Internet and Society: Social Theory in theInformation Age” (New York: Routledge, 2008). He is co-editor of tripleC (Cognition,Communication, Co-operation): Open access online journal for a global sustainableinformation society (http://triplec.at, ISSN: 1726-670X), a transdisciplinary journal thatcovers research on the challenges that humanity is facing today. It accepts papers fromall disciplines and combinations of disciplines carried out with any type of methodsthat focus on topics relating to contemporary society, contemporary informationsociety, and aspects of communication, media, information, and technology in society.