Prize: Winner, 2013 Surveillance Studies Network Annual Book Prize 'Internet platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google have become very popular in recent years. They process, store, analyse, and commodify a lot of personal data, usage behaviour data, communication data, and social network data. Daniel Trottier's book is a crucial and critical resource and must-read for all who want to understand the implications social media has for surveillance at the interpersonal and institutional level and for surveillance conducted by companies and the police.' Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden ’Social media are not just sites that we visit, but increasingly places where we reside. Such spaces are manufactured to augment surveillance, fostering types of visibility that are central to new forms of sociality and power relations. Professor Trottier’s book is an invaluable analysis of how a complex assortment of groups are making a home in this new domain of interactive monitoring.’ Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta, Canada ’Looking for a wide-ranging, well-informed, up-to-date critical sociology of social media surveillance, focused on the Facebook phenomenon? This is it.’ David Lyon, Queen's University, Canada 'Social media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have become information warehouses, processing, storing, and analyzing a wide range of personal, communication and usage behavior data. Daniel Trottier’s book Social Media as Surveillance is a great resource for readers to understand social media surveillance at the interpersonal or institutional levels, where surveillance has been conducted by individuals, companies, or the government agencies in the virtual world... Trottier’s research collects data through detailed interviews with interested parties, such as students, university employees, business owners, and police. These interviews not only reveal how social media is used as surveillance tools, but
