JISCMail - SURVEILLANCE Archives

From time to time, I round up the stats for Surveillance & Society and check what is being downloaded. This isn't a formal citation index, and covers everything we pulished not just peer-reviewed papers, so it is perhaps more indicative of what is popular amongst a wider range of readers, not just other academics writing their own papers. I last did this to the end of 2016, and I've just completed the analysis to the end of 2018.

These figures are for downloads since 2009/2010 (when we moved our servers to Queen's, so clearly much older articles are not favoured by this particular chart. We didn't have equivalent data before this. It also does cover downloads or view on other mirrors or through other databases that keep their own copies. So it's only indicative and will only be a fraction of the real total of views.

What I will also say is don't despair becuase your article isn't in the Top 30: there are another 75 pieces which have between 400 and 675 views / year! And, perhaps more importantly of all, there is not a single piece going back all the way to 2002, which has less than 100 views / year (and BTW, although they aren't included, many pieces in the current Platform Surveillance special have already hit this target). People read Surveillance & Society: not just academics, but policy-makers, activists... and they read everything: the editorials, the book reviews, the debates - not just the peer-reviewed pieces. This is why we will always be (really) Open Access.

Top 20 Most-Read Recent Articles

The 20 most-read recent pieces in Surveillance & Society from 2010 to the end of 2018 (previous position to the end of 2016, when it was only a Top 20):

(1) Alice Marwick (2012) The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life (4468 views / year)
(-) Ivan Manokha (2018) Surveillance, Panopticism and Self-Discipline in the Digital Age (3366)
(2) Jose van Dijck (2014) Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology (2595)
(-) Jonathan Cinnamon (2017) Social Injustice in Surveillance Capitalism (1472)
(5) Mark Andrejevic and Kelly Gates (2014) Big Data Surveillance: Introduction (1387)
(-) Alberto Romele, Francesco Gallino, Camilla Emmenegger, Daniele Gorgone (2017) Panopticism is not Enough: Social Media as Technologies of Voluntary Servitude (1358)
(3) Jennifer Whitson (2013) Gaming the Quantified Self (1310)
(9) Michael Gallagher (2010) Are schools panoptic? (1196)
(-) Josh A. Hendrix, Travis A. Taniguchi, Kevin J. Strom, Kelle A. Barrick, Nicole J. Johnson (2018) The Eyes of Law Enforcement in the New Panopticon: Police-Community Racial Asymmetry and the Use of Surveillance Technology (1138)
(-) Sun-Ha Hong (2017) Criticising Surveillance and Surveillance Critique: Why privacy and humanism are necessary but insufficient (1027)
(-) David Lyon (2015) The Snowden Stakes: Challenges for Understanding Surveillance Today (1016)
(-) David Murakami Wood (2017) The Global Turn to Authoritarianism and After (927)
(-) Lindsey P. Beutin (2017) Racialization as a Way of Seeing: The Limits of Counter-Surveillance and Police Reform (922)
(-) Randy K. Lippert, Bryce Clayton Newell (2016) Debate Introduction: The Privacy and Surveillance Implications of Police Body Cameras (916)
(-) Emmeline Taylor (2016) Lights, Camera, Redaction: Police Body-Worn Cameras; Autonomy, Discretion and Accountability (911)
(-) Torin Monahan (2018) Algorithmic Fetishism (896)
(12) Casey O'Donnell (2014) Getting Played: Gamification and the Rise of Algorithmic Surveillance (851)
(-) Mike Zajko (2018) Security against Surveillance: IT Security as Resistance to Pervasive Surveillance (817)
(11) Sara Degli Esposti (2014) When big data meets dataveillance: the hidden side of analytics (805)
(-) Mark Andrew Wood, Chrissy Thompson (2018) Crowdsourced Countersurveillance: A Countersurveillant Assemblage? (779)
(-) Elizabeth E. Joh (2016) Beyond Surveillance: Data Control and Body Cameras (776)
(-) Ole B. Jensen (2016) New '˜Foucauldian Boomerangs': Drones and Urban Surveillance (766)
(-) Megan M. Wood (2016) Review of Browne's Dark Matters (753)
(-) Aaron Shapiro (2016) Review of Ferguson's The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (720)
(-) Bilge Yesil, Efe Kerem Sozeri (2017) Online Surveillance in Turkey: Legislation, Technology and Citizen Involvement (719)
(-) Kalemba Kizito (2017) Bequeathed Legacies: Colonialism and State led Homophobia in Uganda (713)
(-) Deborah Lupton, Mike Michael (2015) "Depends on Who's Got the Data": Public Understandings of Personal Digital Dataveillance (703)
(-) Thomas K. Bud (2016) The Rise and Risks of Police Body-Worn Cameras in Canada (693)
(-) Anna Hedenus, Christel Backman (2017) Explaining the Data Double: Confessions and Self-Examinations in Job Recruitments (690)
(-) Alexandra Mateescu, Alex Rosenblat, danah boyd (2016) Dreams of Accountability, Guaranteed Surveillance: The Promises and Costs of Body-Worn Cameras (686)

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