MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michel Foucault, Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon
13 Apr 2016
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Claims marche is trying to claim this makes us lonelier but its a representation of fear, believes how you use facebook makes you lonely (based on user), may be misunderstanding the rhetorical question. French social theorist & literary critic, wrote about power & social control (panopticon metaphor of power & disempowerment) The panopticon: an institutional building designed by jeremy bentham to tell when people feel they are being watched they change their behaviour. Foucault looks at change in power from 17th century (sovereign power) to 18th/19th power (disciplinary power) Power is not identified with an individual. Charts change in disciplinary power (how power operates) Confinement vs. control factory = confinement & business = control (based on changes in capitalism) In a control society marketing is now an instrument of social control. All our activities are producing data & data leaves traces (audited, tracked, analyzed, stored, managed)
