New Media and Digital Surveillance Reflections

Abstract

The self-renewing structure of the technology has enabled various transformations to change the existing order. This new technological structure, based on the digitalization of the individual and the society has created differences in the structure. A number of new surveillance practices have emerged in order to provide control in the digital society and to prevent possible problems. In the light of literature review, the results of the digital developments as a result of the rapid changes in human life are examined. In the study, a group of 10 subjects, aged between 18 and 23 years, focused on a group of seven subjects prepared with the data obtained from literature reviews. The questions asked in focus group work have been prepared by compiling the data on new media applications in social, economic and state dimensions. According to the results of the analysis obtained with the data obtained from the study, it was recorded that the focus group participants expressed their beliefs about the state, the economic and the social dimension of the surveillance and that even the developments were facilitated. In this context, it is seen that the criticism of the new media technologies and the new media users' satisfaction with the concept of oversight have an inverse proportion.