CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kijiji, Linkedin, Reddit

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

It creates valuable commodities - data and content: for the most part, everyday users of the internet are not compensated for this work. Power molds us to desire very specific things. Power shapes you into a "powerful" actor. Everything in its right place at the right time. Perfect record keeping of all actions, thoughts, and deeds. Strict scientifically determined regimen for best results. People will internalize the gaze and monitor their own activity once surveillance is made to seem omnipresent. People can be disciplined through regimentation, testing, and constant monitoring - via observation and record keeping. Discipline is particularly powerful in institutional settings such as the factory, school, hospital, office, monastery, or military facilities. Goal of discipline is to take an undifferentiated mass of individuals and normalize each and every one into an institutional subject. Time and motion studies (surveillance) used to empower workers to be more productive. The story of schmidt at bethlehem steel.