Postmodernism- Surveillance

Question 1

what is surveillance?

Answer 1

the monitoring of public behaviour for the purposes of population or crime control, involves observing people and their behaviour to gather data to manage or correct their behaviour.

Question 2

what are some advantages on using surveillance?

Answer 2

-allows criminal to be caught
-allows criminal activity and conversations to be monitored
-used to act as a deterrent

Question 3

what are some of disadvantages of using surveillance?

Answer 3

-tracks every detail of people’s lives and watches their moves
-invasion of privacy, ethically wrong

Question 4

what is sovereign power?

Answer 4

-physical punishment of the body
-monarch had control over people and their bodies
-control was asserted by inflicting disfiguring, visible punishment of the body , which was brutal and an emotional spectacle

Question 5

what is disciplinary power?

Answer 5

-punishment of the mind
-new form of control seeks to discipline not just the body, but the mind and soul as well. This is known as SURVEILLANCE

Question 6

what is the PANOPTICON?

Answer 6

-type of disciplinary power
-design for prison where guards can watch all prisoners but prisoners cannot see guards
-this changes the behaviour of prisoners
-control takes place inside the minds of prisoners
-leads to self-surveillance and self-discipline

Question 7

what is the ‘dispersal of discipline.’ according to FOUCAULT?

Answer 7

the panopticon punishment has penetrated through society, now everywhere is surveilled.

Question 8

what is a key quote according to foulcault and prisons?

Answer 8

we now live in a ‘prison like culture.’
-we think we are being constantly monitored

Question 9

what does Foucault mean by saying we are all becoming prisoners of society?

Answer 9

we are all controlled and watched by those in power

Question 10

what is the piece of evidence that shows that we now live in a big-brother society?

Answer 10

in London there are 691,000 cameras, with there being 1 CCTV camera for every 13 people

Question 11

what is liquid surveillance?

Answer 11

surveillance is now fluid and flexible
-example= citizens are captured on camera 300x per day in the uk

Question 12

what has living in an ‘ELECTRICAL PANOPTICON’ lead to?

Answer 12

it has lead to technology of power and self-discipline and self-discipline

Question 13

what did MATHIESEN say about synoptic surveillance?

Answer 13

-in late modern society, media enables the many to monitor the few
-bottom-up surveillance due to mass media and the digital age
-we are not just being surveilled, we are now monitoring the RC aswell

Question 14

what does synoptic surveillance mean?

Answer 14

everyone is watching and monitoring everyone

Question 15

what did THOMPSON say about synoptic surveillance in 2000?

Answer 15

politicians and elite fear media surveillance that may uncover damaging information

Question 16

what did MANN et al. say about synoptic surveillance in 2013?

Answer 16

-sous-veillance
-widespread camera ownership means ordinary citizens may now control the controllers
-eg- film police wrongdoing

Question 17

what is actuarial justice and risk management?

Answer 17

-FEELY AND SIMON (1994)
-surveillance and crime control now focus on groups of people rather than individuals
-data is used to predict behaviours
-strategy to reduce crime by using statistical information to pick out likely offenders?

Question 18

what is the analysis of surveillance as actuarial justice?

Answer 18

surveillance allows us to ‘identify, classify and manage groups sorted by their levels of dangerousness.
IMPACT= places groups/communities under ‘categorical suspicion’, some groups suspected of wrongdoing because they are part of the group.

Question 19

what is an example of actuarial justice and it’s analysis?

Answer 19

in 2010 the WM police sought to introduce counter-terrorism scheme to surround 2 mainly Muslim suburbs of Birmingham with about 150 cameras
-show islamophobia

Question 20

what are 4 points evaluation for surveillance?

Answer 20

-exaggerated, can cause displacement
-assumes that criminals care about being watched
-GILL and LOVEDAY= criminals (theft and burgulary) said they were not put off by CCTV
-ideological, CCTV does not always work