Sociology 2106A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mass Surveillance, Countersurveillance
17 Oct 2018
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Everything is monitored and constantly being recorded and analyzed. Surveillance and technology become one in the same. Computers become monitoring technology that we may not be aware of. Stalking people on fb is a form of surveillance. Cameras in all stores. this is normalized today. Monitor your own behaviour knowing others are watching you (cid:1684)self-policing(cid:1685) Look at surveillance on the negative side. In hawaii and downloaded massive amounts of data. Not allowed back in the us since. Controls activity and determines when you start and end any kind of behaviour. Directs to concepts of rationalization, has become a part of who we are based on rational choice. In a village, you get a job from a friend or web affiliations in china. Societies in canada work less based on connections. this works in non bureaucratized settings. Connections and friendships don(cid:1685)t help as much here.
