All Outputs (7)

Introduction: For a psychosocial approach to the lockdown (2022)
Book Chapter
Ellis, D., & Voela, A. (2022). Introduction: For a psychosocial approach to the lockdown. In D. Ellis, & A. Voela (Eds.), After Lockdown, Opening Up (3-25). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80278-3_1

This introductory chapter locates the volume in the Social Sciences and in Psycho-social Studies, defines the scope of the examination of the pandemic in each contribution and contextualizes the concept of ‘opening up’ with reference to Psychoanalysi... Read More about Introduction: For a psychosocial approach to the lockdown.

Covert aspects of surveillance and the ethical issues they raise (2021)
Book Chapter
Harper, D. J., Ellis, D., & Tucker, I. (2021). Covert aspects of surveillance and the ethical issues they raise. In R. Iphofen, & D. O'Mathúna (Eds.), Ethical Issues in Covert, Security and Surveillance Research, Volume 8 (177-197). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2398-601820210000008013

This chapter focusses on the ethical issues raised by different types of surveillance and the varied ways in which surveillance can be covert. Three case studies are presented which highlight different types of surveillance and different ethical conc... Read More about Covert aspects of surveillance and the ethical issues they raise.

Locked-Down, log-in and slog-on: A technocratic dystopia? (2021)
Book Chapter
Ellis, D. (2021). Locked-Down, log-in and slog-on: A technocratic dystopia?. In D. Ellis, & A. Voela (Eds.), After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19 (111-127). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80278-3_6

This chapter discusses how some relationships with technology throughout the pandemic were radically enhanced because of social (physical) distancing. It has been said that several years of technological evolution were condensed into a few months. To... Read More about Locked-Down, log-in and slog-on: A technocratic dystopia?.

Social media, emoticons and process (2018)
Book Chapter
Ellis, D. (2018). Social media, emoticons and process. In T. D. Sampson, D. Ellis, & S. Maddison (Eds.), Affect and Social Media: Emotion, Mediation, Anxiety and Contagion (18-26). Rowman & Littlefield

In this chapter I analyse notions of ‘personal information’ and ‘emoticons’ by drawing on some concepts form Whitehead’s process philosophy. I will look at some of the ways that they are prehended through acts of concrescence to form as actual entit... Read More about Social media, emoticons and process.

Introduction: On affect, social media and criticality (2018)
Book Chapter
Sampson, T., Ellis, D., & Maddison, S. (2018). Introduction: On affect, social media and criticality. In T. Sampson, S. Maddison, & D. Ellis (Eds.), Affect and Social Media: Emotion, Mediation, Anxiety and Contagion. London: Rowman & Littlefield

Affect and Social Media is an edited collection of twenty bite sized articles by leading scholars from across disciplinary boundaries. It is comprised of four distinct but related sections which are interspersed with artistic illustrations, depicting... Read More about Introduction: On affect, social media and criticality.

Surveillance (2014)
Book Chapter
Ellis, D., Tucker, I., & Harper, D. (2014). Surveillance. In T. Teo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology (1887-1882). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_305

Surveillance has been of interest to critical psychologists in two distinct ways: as a matter of practical; and political concern in relation to civil liberties and as a theoretical concern in relation to the construction and policing of societal nor... Read More about Surveillance.

Surveillance and subjectivity: Everyday experiences of surveillance practices (2013)
Book Chapter
Ellis, D., Harper, D., & Tucker, I. (2013). Surveillance and subjectivity: Everyday experiences of surveillance practices. In K. Ball, & L. Snider (Eds.), The surveillance-industrial complex: A political economy of surveillance. Routledge

The growth of a surveillance industrial complex over recent decades has had significant implications for the political economy of personal information. Within the field of surveillance studies there has been an engagement with these issues at a macro... Read More about Surveillance and subjectivity: Everyday experiences of surveillance practices.