My Research Project (Work in progress)

After watching the short film ‘Noah’ (http://www.fastcocreate.com/3017108/you-need-to-see-this-17-minute-film-set-entirely-on-a-teens-computer-screen) my first reaction was ‘Facebook curse’, but my reflection on the film changed, when I realized we as humans are spinning our own ‘web’ of social surveillance.

This research paper will examine the surveillance of our own network that unconsciously occurs while we intent to maintain a good social relation/relationship.

On Facebook someone just bought a new house, your cousin updated his status to ‘in a relationship’ and you received two ‘pokes’ from your new classmate, you have not met yet. The smartphone is ringing in vain and shortly after you will receive a message saying: “What are you doing?”, “Where are you?” or “Why are you not answering your phone”?. Just illustrates the tendency in the postmodern society that your social network is now capable of keeping track of your whereabouts and doings. Surveillance as aspect is being a social phenomenon. ‘Interpersonal communication’ is replaced with ‘interpersonal monitoring’ as an essential part of maintaining our social relationships. We want to create stronger relationships with our social network but the price seems to be our privacy.

Issues:

·      Trust / Risk

·      Privacy

·      The possibility to surveillance each other

Research method: Qualitative interviews of girls in the age of 23-31.