Re: <nettime> Google Buzz and the Surveilance Economy

[Greg Elmer <elmer.greg@gmail.com>]

But it's so easy, no? Buzz is a tyranny of convenience, I think Colin
Bennett coined that phrase. Surveillance regimes are powerful because they
offer something to users. That "pay off" must play a greater role in
surveillance studies. /Greg Elmer


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Senior Fellow, London School of Economics
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