SOC313H1 Lecture : March 13 soc313.docx
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Your characteristics are out there in these march 13, 2012 lecture - Think about surveillance broadly - i. e. workers, bureaucrats, etc - all these processes in place to monitor people and their behavior. Surveillance has always been happening but with new technology there is a new kind of surveillance happening. Mixing of the old and the new. Surveillance is one of those things that applies to everybody. Surveillance is something we encounter every single day. Definition of surveillance on slide in text book. Doesn"t require face to face observation - could be like a company browsing your facebook page. Examples: cameras now on subways or cctv. Two types of surveillance: disciplinary surveillance theory - foucault - critical and dystopic imagery. There are constant tracking devices in our pockets (cells). Were not being tracked by the state but companies can use this information to sell us things. Panopticon - the idea is that we are beyond the state.
