Associate Professor Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication Department of Media and Communication
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- trottier@eshcc.eur.nl
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Daniel Trottier is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His current research considers the use of digital media for the purposes of scrutiny, denunciation and shaming. Daniel is the PI of a five-year NWO-funded project on this topic, entitled “Digital Vigilantism: Mapping the terrain and assessing societal impacts”. He is also participating in a joint NSF/NWO project on mobile privacy, and has previously participated in two European Commission projects on security, privacy and digital media. Daniel has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals on this and other topics, as well as Social Media as Surveillance with Ashgate in 2012, Identity…
Daniel Trottier is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His current research considers the use of digital media for the purposes of scrutiny, denunciation and shaming. Daniel is the PI of a five-year NWO-funded project on this topic, entitled “Digital Vigilantism: Mapping the terrain and assessing societal impacts”. He is also participating in a joint NSF/NWO project on mobile privacy, and has previously participated in two European Commission projects on security, privacy and digital media. Daniel has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals on this and other topics, as well as Social Media as Surveillance with Ashgate in 2012, Identity Problems in the Facebook Era with Routledge in 2013, and Social Media, Politics and the State (co-edited with Christian Fuchs) with Routledge in 2014.
Daniel previously held appointments as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Digital Media at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, as well as Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University Sweden, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Daniel completed a PhD in Sociology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. His doctoral research focused on the impact of digital media on interpersonal and institutional surveillance practices. Daniel obtained a BA in Psychology and Sociology at McGill University, and a MA in Sociology at Concordia University, both in Montreal, Canada.
- R. Gabdulhakov & D. Trottier (2020). Between ‘filter bubbles’ and community leaders: An exploratory study of Facebook groups for Russophones/Russians in the Netherlands. Journal of Global Diaspora and Media, 1 (1), 89-105. doi: 10.1386/gdm_00006_1
- Q. Huang, R. Gabdulhakov & D. Trottier (2020). Online scrutiny of people with nice cars: A comparative analysis of Chinese, Russian, and Anglo-American outrage. Global Media and China. doi: 10.1177/2059436420901818
- J.H. Pridmore, M. Zimmer, J. Vitak, A.E. Mols, D. Trottier, P.C. Kumar & Y. Liao (2019). Intelligent Personal Assistants and the Intercultural Negotiations of Dataveillance in Platformed Households. Surveillance & Society, 17 (1/2), 125-131. doi: 10.24908/ss.v17i1/2.12936
- D. Trottier (2019). Denunciation and doxing: towards a conceptual model of digital vigilantism. Global crime. doi: 10.1080/17440572.2019.1591952
- D. Trottier (2018). Scandal mining: political nobodies and remediated visibility. Media Culture & Society (online), 40 (6), 893-908. doi: 10.1177/0163443717734408
- D. Trottier (2018). Coming to Terms with Shame: Exploring Mediated Visibility against Transgressions. Surveillance & Society, 16 (2), 170-182. doi: 10.24908/ss.v16i2.6811
- D. Myles & D. Trottier (2017). Leveraging Visibility, Gaining Capital? Social Media Use in the Fight Against Child Abusers: The Case of The Judge Beauce. Social Media + Society, 3 (1). doi: 10.1177/2056305117691998
- C. Fuchs & D. Trottier (2017). Internet Surveillance after Snowden: A Critical Empirical Study of Computer Experts' Attitudes on Commercial and State Surveillance of the Internet and Social Media post-Edward Snowden. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 15 (4), 412-444. doi: 10.1108/JICES-01-2016-0004
- D. Trottier (2017). 'Fear of contact': Police surveillance through social networks. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 4 (4), 457-477. doi: 10.1080/23254823.2017.1333442
- D. Trottier (2017). Digital Vigilantism as Weaponisation of visibility. Philosophy & Technology, 30 (1), 55-72. doi: 10.1007/s13347-016-0216-4
- D. Trottier (2015). Coming to Terms with Social Media Monitoring: Uptake and Early Assessment. Crime, Media, Culture, 11 (3), 317-333. doi: 10.1177/1741659015593390
- C. Fuchs & D. Trottier (2015). Towards a Theoretical Model of Social Media Surveillance in Contemporary Society. Communications: the European journal of communication research (print), 40 (1), 113-135.
- D. Trottier (2015). Social media intelligence, law enforcement, and OSINT: visions, constraints and critiques. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18 (4-5), 530-547.
- D. Trottier (2014). Crowdsourcing CCTV Surveillance on the Internet. Information, Communication and Society (print), 17 (5), 609-626. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.808359
- K.D. Haggerty & D. Trottier (2013). Surveillance and/of Nature: Monitoring Beyond the Human. Society & Animals, 23 (4), 400-420. doi: 10.1163/15685306-12341304
- D. Trottier & C. Schneider (2013). Social Media and the 2011 Vancouver Riot. Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 40, 335-362. doi: 10.1108/S0163-2396(2013)0000040018
- D. Trottier (2013). The Business of Conversations: Market Social Media Surveillance and Visibility. First Monday - Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet, 18 (2). doi: 10.5210/fm.v18i2.3930
- D. Trottier (2012). Policing Social Media. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 49 (4), 411-425. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-618X.2012.01302.x
- D. Trottier (2012). Interpersonal Surveillance on Social Media. Canadian Journal of Communication (online), 37 (2), 319-332.
- D. Trottier (2011). Mutual Transparency or Mundane Transgressions? Institutional Creeping on Facebook. Surveillance & Society, 9 (1/2), 17-30.
- D. Trottier (2013). Identity problems in the Facebook Era. New York: Routledge
- D. Trottier (2012). Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World. Farnham: Ashgate
- D. Trottier, Q. Huang & R. Gabdulhakov (2020). Mediated Visibility as Making Vitriol Meaningful. In S. Polak & D. Trottier (Eds.), Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol (Media matters) (pp. 25-47). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press doi: 10.5117/9789462989481
- D. Trottier (2019). Scandal mining and socially mediated visibility. In H. Tumber & S. Waisbord (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Media & Scandal (pp. Part III-28). Abingdon: Routledge
- D. Trottier (2018). Revisiting privacy in public spaces in the context of digital vigilantism. In Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space (pp. chapter-8). New York: Routledge
- D. Trottier (2017). Privacy and Surveillance on Social Platforms. In J. Burgess, A. Marwick & Th. Poell (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Media (pp. 463-478). London: Sage
- D. Trottier (2016). Caring for the virtual self on social media: Managing visibility on Facebook. In I. van der Ploeg & J. Pridmore (Eds.), Digitizing Identities: Doing Identity in a Networked World (pp. 60-76). London: Routledge
- D. Trottier (2014). Crowds and Crowdsourcing. In J.B. Holbrook & C. Mitcham (Eds.), Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource, 2nd edition. Thompson Learning
- V. Steeves, D. Lyon & D. Trottier (2014). From Them to us – Surveillance as Participation. In C.J. Bennett, K.D. Haggerty, D. Lyon & V. Steeves (Eds.), Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada (pp. 167-182). Edmonton: University of Athabasca Press
- D. Trottier (2014). Theorising Social Media, Politics and the State: An Introduction. In D. Trottoer & C. Fuchs (Eds.), Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (pp. 3-38). New York: Routledge
- D. Trottier (2014). Vigilantism and Power-Users: Police and User-led Investigations on Social Media. In Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. New York: Routledge
- D. Trottier (2014). Big Data Ambivalence: Visions and Risks in Practice. In M. Hand & S. Hillyard (Eds.), Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research (pp. 51-72). Emerald Publishers
- C. Fuchs & D. Trottier (2013). The Internet as Surveilled Workplayplace and Factory. In S. Gutwirth, P. De Hert, R. Leenes & Y. Poullet (Eds.), European Data Protection: Coming of Age (pp. 33-58). Dordrecht: Springer
- D. Trottier (2015). Sharing the Self. In Auto: Self-Representation and Digital Photography (pp. 83-89). Stockholm: Publisher Art and Theory Publishing
- D. Trottier, R. Gabdulhakov & Q. Huang (Ed.). (2020). Introducing Vigilant Audiences. UK: Open Book Publishers doi: 10.11647/obp.0200
- D. Trottier & C. Fuchs (Ed.). (2014). Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. New York: Routledge
- D. Trottier (2014). Impact Assessment of Social Network Monitoring and Analysis Systems (SNMAS). (Extern rapport). : RESPECT Project (EC Grant no. 285582)
- C. Fuchs & D. Trottier (2013). Social Media Surveillance & Society. (Extern rapport, no 8). : PACT Privacy & Security Research Paper Series
- D. Trottier (2013). Cost and Convenience Report of Social Network Monitoring and Analysis Systems (SNMAS). (Extern rapport). : RESPECT Project (EC Grant no. 285582)
- D. Clément, W. Silver & D. Trottier (2012). The Evolution of Human Rights in Canada. (Extern rapport). : Canadian Human Rights Commission
- D. Trottier (2012). Inventory of Social Network Monitoring and Analysis Systems (SNMAS). (Extern rapport). : RESPECT Project (EC Grant no. 285582)
- D. Trottier (2012). An Inventory and Evaluation of CCTV Internet Crowd-sourcing. (Extern rapport, no 4). : PACT Privacy & Security Research Paper Series
- D. Trottier (2014). Social Media Analytics: A Social Scientific Perspective. (Extern rapport). House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee: Social Media Data and Real Time Analytics Inquiry
- D. Trottier, R. Gabdulhakov & Q. Huang (2019, april 16). Informing the Court of Public Opinion Through Mediated Scrutiny, Nationalism, and Denunciation. St. Petersburg, Russia, Comparative Media Studies in Today's World 7th International Conference.
- Q. Huang, R. Gabdulhakov & D. Trottier (2019, juni 29). Online Scrutiny of People with ‘Nice Cars’: the Class Struggle in China and Beyond. Singapore, The 17th Chinese Internet Research Conference.
- D. Trottier (2015, mei 22). Invited lecture Digital Vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon. Paris, Centre de Recherches Internationales, Science Po.
- D. Trottier (2017). Review of Barney, Coleman, Ross, Sterne, and Tembeck’s The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age [Bespreking van het boek The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age]. Surveillance & Society, 15(5), 695-697.
- D. Trottier (2014). Review of Leistert’s Between Protest and Surveillance: The Political Rationality of Mobile Media [Bespreking van het boek Between Protest and Surveillance: The Political Rationality of Mobile Media]. Surveillance & Society, 12(4), 602-603.
- D. Trottier (2013). Review of America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society [Bespreking van het boek America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society]. Information, Communication and Society (online), 16(1), 149-151. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.595816
- D. Trottier (2012). Review of Allmer’s Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism [Bespreking van het boek Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism]. Surveillance & Society, 10(2), 202-203.
- D. Trottier (2017). Sociality and Surveillance. Security, and Privacy. Edited by Bruce A. Arrigo. Sage: .
- A.E. Mols, J.H. Pridmore & D. Trottier (2017). Watching our neighbours: The negotiation of privacy in neighbourhoods. TILTing Perspectives: Tilburg University, The Netherlands (2017, mei 19).
- D. Trottier (2015). Keynote Interpersonal surveillance and user-led policing on social platforms. The Social Life of Big Data conference: Edith Cowan University, Perth (2015, juni 2).
- D. Trottier (2013). Surveillance Studies Network 2013 book prize. Overig.
Key Concepts in the Social Sciences
- Title
- Key Concepts in the Social Sciences
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- (BA-1) (Pre-master) (Pre-master) (Pre-master) (Pre-master)
Global Advertising
- Title
- Global Advertising
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- (BA-2) (BA-3)
Surveillance, visibility and reputation
- Title
- Surveillance, visibility and reputation
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- (MA) (MA-1)
Associate Professor
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- Department
- Department of Media and Communication
- Country
- The Netherlands