Surveillance

Question 0

What’s the implicate question?

Answer 0

Is this principle new? In the past was religion the all seeing eye?

Question 1

What are the three points for surveillance?

Answer 1

Panopticon principles. it’s use in employment, the governable person

Question 2

So why does it matter?

Answer 2

Do we want to be tracked? Security verses freedom

Question 3

Who wrote on this topic?

Answer 3

Sewell and wilkinson

Question 4

What are the panopticon principles?

Answer 4

If people think they are being watched they will conform with what they think they should be doing- whatever the situation is.

The chance of being watched by unseen eyes is all it takes for someone to alter behaviours.

Question 5

What are it’s effects in employment

Answer 5

In low skilled repetitive jobs can reduce slack and create consistent levels of work output.

In high skilled jobs which require creativity and intelligence, the use of surveillance can cause employees to be restrained and not to think outside of the box for fear of observed failure.

Question 6

Modern day Foucaults governable person.

Answer 6

Foucaults normalised person is one who conforms with surveillance seeing it as normal.

Modern technology norms such as Facebook, tesco club cards all make us governable.