New Privacy Concept in Social Media in Digital Surveillance Society

Abstract

One of the changing phenomena in the globalized world is privacy. The right to privacy has been central to the democratic society since its inception. In the post-modern world, some of the concepts considered as privacy in the past are shared by a wide network. Technology has increased the surveillance potential of an average citizen, along with laws allowing extended government control over the lives of the people. Rapidly evolving information and communication technologies take place at every moment of our lives. While individuals' lives go towards digital life, this brings about many changes. While privacy in real life is the one-sided areas digital privacy is a very different matter. When we write our feelings on a piece of paper and share it with the people we want, we can save it from what we want and when we share them in digital media, these thoughts that are converted into digital data are not so easily erased. Social media also makes us think about the concept of privacy, and the shares made by individuals force the limits of privacy. In this virtual medium, individuals share their private spaces more freely, while individuals share videos and photos of their private spaces without being bold and limiting. For this purpose, the social media tool of the individuals who stand out as prominent in the society on Instagram has been analyzed. The aim of the article. Digital Surveillance and New Intimacy lend is to reveal how we are being watched in the digital age without changing our knowledge in the changing conditions of life with new technologies. It is another aim of the study to reveal how the perception of privacy has changed with the emergence of different surveillance methods. For this purpose, the contents of Instagram accounts of selected celebrities have been analyzed and it is investigated whether there is a confidentiality phenomenon.