CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Online Identity, Winnipeg General Strike, Chief Operating Officer

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CDNS 1000
• Professor: Richard Nimijean

Document Summary

Canadian studies notes monday, november 28, 2011. Rise of the surveillance society people like watching and being watched. This plays an important role in constructing out identity. To what extent does this affect our personas. To what extent does social networking achieve this type of surveillance. To discuss changes in conceptions of identity in the digital age. To think about how the digital age gives up a paradox: we can change our identity easily, but we lose control of that identity. To think about the role of technologies like facebook in our daily lives. Surveillance has changed over the past two decades. Today, it is all about sharing information across large distances. Post-modern forms of surveillance based on idea that information can travel over the long distances. Our dna and things distinct to us is what makes us different. Responds to idea that identity is fleeting in postmodern world.