synoptic society

What does Mathiesen argue about synopticon?

• Everybody watches everyone

• The media allows the many to see the few

What does Thomson argue the media is doing to the powerful groups in society?

• Afraid of the media’s surveillance of them

• Acts as a form of social control over their behaviour

What is an example of the public monitoring eachother?

• Phones / citizenship journalism

• Cyclists w cameras on helmet

• Usually to warn others

Does bottom up scrutiny reverse the hierarchies of surveillance according to McCahill?

• No

• Police have the power to confiscate cameras

What do Haggerty and Erickson argue about society?

• Surveillance technologies are manipulating virtual objects rather than bodies in a physical space

What are surveillance assemblages according to Haggerty and Ericsson?

• Technologies now combined

• E.g. CCTV with facial recognition

• Technologies can be combined into a data double of the individual