Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Panopticons, Curved Mirror, Film Noir
14 Jul 2014
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If you feel you can be seen by a minimum of people, you always handle yourself, you are always mediating yourself panoptic: humans need privacy, pg. 68 now you are watching yourself hide behind a fallen tree , pg. It changes the way we behave: what"s wrong with camera if it puts the criminals in jail? . But what if you are on the receiving end (get drunk, do something you wouldn"t normally do), just because you don"t commit crimes doesn"t mean the camera won"t affect you. You click too much, read too little, and remember even less is one quote that sums up the internet experience. We"re constantly connecting; our cursor never rests in one place for long and neither does our mind. There"s a growing imbalance between outer (our actions) and inner (our thoughts) life, and we need to find a balance between connecting and disconnecting. We lose depth in our lives because we never spend enough time thinking.
