SOC226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Surveillance, Starbucks
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The broad range of social, political and technological factors that contribute to making diverse people, places and things visible to different audiences to varying degrees. The degree to which people, places and things are observable. We live in a time where we"re under so much surveillance. We can"t consider it one big surveillance, but there"s various kinds of surveillance that have different effects. You can be more or less visible in certain ways. Ex: how visible you are to your friends/family and how they survey you. Security versus privacy (balancing the desire for privacy and surveillance. Surveillance gives us security but we lose privacy when giving into that. Dataveillance (kinds of surveillance that gather data about peoples behaviour like facebook. Starbucks uses points systems to collect your age, gender, what you buy, when you buy as well, not just as a marketing promo)
