WGS337H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Manulife, Sousveillance
7 Nov 2017
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Lecture 7 notes surveillance based pleaser and desire. Natalie blanchard: her pictures are widely accessible online. Ibm employee and took a leave for her depression and was encouraged by a psychiatrist to go on vacation. Selfie: an image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera especially for posting on social networks, make mobile phones into an extension of the body. Image maker is the protagonist in the story of their own composition. Why do we take selfies: to feel good about ourselves, because you"re feeling yourself . The self-made panopticon: absence of prisons our guards but nonetheless, intensive self-regulation and surveillance. In putting the selfie online, you open yourself to surveillance. In portraying your way in a specific way, that might be a form of sousveillance (counter-gaze: a form of interruption (browne, 2015) of the status quo. Selfie as sousveillance: #whatadoctorlookslike campaign using selfies, you can push back on certain racist ideologies.
