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The Individual and Everyday Surveillance
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Lee, A, The Individual and Everyday Surveillance, Emerging and Enduring Inequalities - The 2012 Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, 26-29 November 2012, Brisbane, Queensland, pp. 1-6. ISBN 978-0-646-58783-7 (2012) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
Surveillance is common in modern society, with individuals subject to many forms of data
collection and monitoring in everyday life. Many of these forms are through information and
communications technologies (ICTs), which hold an ever increasing place in modern living.
To understand this trend, surveillance theories have shifted from Foucauldian influenced
panoptic surveillance towards post-panoptic approaches. However, there is little
consideration given to the individual's experience of surveillance within these theories. This
is problematic, as in order to sufficiently address the implications of surveillance, the
individual’s experience of surveillance must be considered (Friesen, Chung and Feenberg
2006). This article explores the panoptic and post-panoptic approaches to surveillance, and
the ways in which ICT surveillance is integrated into everyday life, and highlights how there
is a gap in surveillance studies literature regarding how the individual experiences
surveillance. More recent post-panoptic approaches such as the surveillant assemblage
(Haggerty and Ericson 2000) are identified as holding few additional contributions to this
gap. Instead, it is Foucault’s writings that are more insightful, despite being sometime
dismissed in surveillance studies. The article concludes by suggesting that a greater
recognition of the positive contributions of surveillance theory would be more productive for
surveillance studies than a paradigm shift.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | surveillance, experience, ICT's, panopticism, post-panopticism, everyday life |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Sociology |
| Research Field: | Sociology not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
| Objective Group: | Other culture and society |
| Objective Field: | Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Lee, A (Mr Ashlin Lee) |
| ID Code: | 84581 |
| Year Published: | 2012 |
| Deposited By: | Sociology and Social Work |
| Deposited On: | 2013-05-21 |
| Last Modified: | 2014-08-13 |
| Downloads: | 403 View Download Statistics |
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