POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Scopophilia
Document Summary
Panoptic surveillance top down the few watching the many. Reinforces distribution power and negative suppression of it. Synoptic surveillance-the many are watching one another and also the few. Social media has expanded panoptic but also a reality of synoptic reality. We have the capacity to monitor people in position of authority is doing, that is profound because it leads to a shift in distribution of communication power. Scopophilia love to watch one another, negative side effect of subjectivity and turning the object to an object.
