User:Melconser/sandbox

I want to contribute to the "Criticism of Facebook" page.

First, I will add a new category to the content section, called "Surveillance."

The pre-existing category "student-related issues", will be added as a sub-category to the "Survelillance" category.

Also under the Surveillance category will be sub-categoriess: "employer-employee privacy issues" and "performative surveillance."

Employer-employee privacy issues will refer to recent news of employers forcing their employees, or potential employees, to turn-over their Facebook log-ins and passwords so that the employer may surveil employees' personal lives online.

Sources I will use for "employer-employee privacy issues" are: 1) Hudson Jr., David L. "Site Unseen." ABA Journal 98.11 (2012): 22-23. Business Source Complete. Web. 12 Mar. 2013.

This article discusses the privacy implications of employers and schools forcing employees or students to disclose login information on social networking sites.

2) http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/bill_to_ban_companies_from_req.html

This article discusses the passing of a bill in New Jersey that would make it illegal for employers to even ask (potential) employees for access to their facebook accounts.

The "performative surveillance" sub-category will address the notion that people allow themselves to be surveilled through facebook, and other social networking websites, so that they may portray a certain existence online that may, or may not, be true to their real life.

I will use this source for the performative surveillance sub-category:

E.J. Westlake. "Friend Me if You Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance." TDR: The Drama Review 52.4 (2008): 21-40. Project MUSE. Web. 12 Mar. 2013. .

This article discusses how Facebook has enhanced the prevalence of something called "performative surveillance", or the idea that people can present themselves online in a manner that doesn't necessarily align with their actual life.