CRM 3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Exhibitionism, Social Capital, Voyeurism
31 Jul 2018
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11/22/17 (20) watching you, watching me": surveillance and voyeurism (pt. 2) Social sorting" populations assessed according to risk and value: amplification of social inequalities. Surveillance as cultural practice: embedded within social practices. There are certain social hierarchies in which surveillance is embedded in: brought about by social practices, generates social practices. Surveillance and the mechanisms through which we survey people general ways that we engage with the world: technologies constitute knowledge, experience, and relationships. The may observing the few": seeing what was meant to remain hidden. Look at me!": desire to see and be seen, visual surveillance + public/private media help shape understanding. Privacy: highly subjective, ambiguous concept, context dependent, people will say that they wanted to determine when, how, and the extent of the information that is shared. They are willing to trade things off (e. g. loyalty card).
