CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Voyeurism, Reputation, Winnipeg General Strike
23 Feb 2017
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Rise of the surveillance society: people like watching and being watched. This plays an important role in constructing our identity: key element of identity is being acknowledged by someone else. To what extent does this affect our online personas: house our identities online, take our identity and place it online: social media represents online version of ourselves. Discuss changes in conceptions of identity in the digital age. Think about how the digital age gives us a paradox: we can change our identity easily, but we lost 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 distance. Modern forms of surveillance demand proximity, some level of space is share. Another thing is there is a de-personalized form of surveillance. In order to watch our each other, one needs to be relatively close to each other.
