Sociology / Soc 1701 · Atom · ~20 seconds
Panoptic Surveillance and New Media
Video not yet published
to the StudyWalks catalog
to the StudyWalks catalog
State
Panoptic surveillance, adapted from Bentham's panopticon prison design as analyzed by Foucault, describes how new media lets institutions shape conduct because the watched cannot verify whether they are being observed.
Show
A nanny-cam or workplace tracking software lets a watcher observe without the watched knowing exactly when observation occurs.
Watch for
The concept concerns behavior changing under possible observation, not observation happening at every moment.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.