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SURVEILLANCE - Coggle Diagram
SURVEILLANCE
FOUCALT: BIRTH OF PRISON
- SOVERIGN POWER:
- typical of period pre-19th century where the monarch had absolute power over people and their bodies
- control was asserted by inflicting visible punishment on the body
- DISCIPLINARY POWER:
- becomes dominant in 19th century
- new form of discipline seeks to govern not just the body but the mind/soul
- does so through surveillance
- Foucalt claims disciplinary power replaced sovereign power because surveillance is a more efficient was of controlling people
- THE PANOPTICIAN:
- foucoult illustrated disciplinary power through he panoptician
- this was a design for a prison j which each prisoner in their own cell is visible to the guards , but guards arent visible to prisoners
- as a result they have to behave at all times as if they were being watched at all times
- the surveillance turns into self-surveillance and discipline becomes self-discipline
- disciplinary power involves monitoring the individual with a view to rehabilitating them
- in his view it has dispereced throughout society
- Exaggerates the extent of control and overestimates power of surveillance to change behaviour
SYNOPTIC SUREVEILLANCE
- MATHIESEN: argues Foucaults account of surveillance only tells us hall the story when applied to society today
- argues in late modern society, there is an increase in top-down centralised surveillance that Foucault discusses, but also theres surveillance from below
- 'synopticon'- everybody can see everybody
- thompson: argues that powerful groups e.g politicians fear the medias surveillance of them may uncover damaging info about them
- another sample is where the public monitor eachotehr e.g cameras on cycle helmets/dahsboards to collect evidence in case of an accisnet
- this may when road users their behaviour is being monitored and result in them exercising self-discipline
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SURVEILLANT ASSEMBLAGES
- Haggerty and Ericson argue surveillance technologies now involve the manipulation of of virtual objects(digital data) in cyberspace rather Egan the physical bodies in physical space
- until recently surveillance technologies ended to be stand alone and unable to talk to one another
- now there is unimportant trend towards combining different technologies
- e.g cctv footage can be analysed using facial recognition software
Haggerty & ericosn calls these combinations 'surveillant assemblages'
- they suggest were moving towards a world in which data from different technologies can be combined to create a 'data double' of the individual