(This article was cross-posted on the Masters of Media blog). Here’s the final version of my thesis (called ‘Persistence of Life-Streams – An Inquiry Into the Implications of Mixed Surveillance’) which covers the nature and implications of (participatory) surveillance in the field of social media, and specifically in life-streaming services like Twitter and Facebook. (PDF [...]

With weeks of social isolation, and an increasing amount of repetitive strain injuries, last week was finally the time to hand in the New Media master thesis! After having the essential meetings and discussions with UvA professor R. Rogers (honestly, planning is still not my strongest point), I finally got some grip on the main [...]