Lee Humphreys draws on his research as an analyst to explore issues of privacy and surveillance with the advent of the iPhone and other ‘smartphones’. Humphreys suggests the use of new information technologies leads to increased surveillance in a networked society. Using the case of Dodgeball, a mobile service that distributed location-based information of users, he categorizes surveillance that present in the everyday usage of Dodgeball into three different categories: voluntary panopticon, lateral surveillance, and self-surveillance. Humphreys checks many of his findings with the founder of Dodgeball, then he employs constant comparative method with an interpretive approach in order to understand the perspectives of the Dodgeball. Through
