SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Data Profiling, Syndic, Net.
Document Summary
Introduction: the principle logics and practices of control have been profoundly transformed by the proliferation and development of surveillance technologies. However, there are a range of less obvious and more invisible methods of surveillance. A definition: surveillance, thus, surveillance involves the purposive monitoring of conduct to allow for the identification, acquisition, and classification of. People were nominated to monitor the population to identify outbreaks of black death/plagues. Foucault described this system of surveillance, where the figure of the syndic was appointed from the members of the community to keep watch over the spread of disease. Captured by deployment of cctv cameras in range of urban and suburban locations. Surveillance has proliferated and become increasingly systematized across a range of public and private arenas, as a result of the situating of a variety of technologies with monitoring capacities in the previously mentioned arenas.
