I’m dead against the proposed new airport body scanners that can see through clothes.
It’s not that I’m a prude. If someone is desperate enough to want to see me in the nick then go for it. Take a free shot – but be prepared to be disappointed. But it’s the imposition of the authoritative gaze [...]
Surveillance of blogs may not always be the result of high-tech capabilities. Blogs can come to the attention of management through the personal association of colleagues with the blogger. Once the blog is thus brought to the attention of management then a variety of methods might be used to keep watch on the blog.
Importantly blogs [...]
Tactical memory: The politics of openness in the construction of memory by Sandra BramanIn this at times meandering article from First Monday, it is proposed that, whilst the Panopticon was, and still is, a powerful way to imagine spaces of discipline, it is the Panspectron that turns today’s environment of open information into an always-on [...]
My final essays are due soon and I’m writing one of them on how micro-blogging is leading to increased levels of self disclosure and what how this may affect individual privacy. My initial thoughts are that yes, people are disclosing more about themselves and they do this to achieve various personal and economic gains. But [...]
ETHICOMP 2004:
“Surveillance-capable technologies in the workplace: some evidence of the views of the next generation of computer professionals”
PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE IN COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK:
“Whenever individuals are being informally watched or listened to, they are somewhat inhibited by what they imagine others’ reactions to be. This is how informal social control works in groups. We tend to try not to upset the people around us, especially if they have the means to [...]
