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Surveillance

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Surveillance is a mode of power based on the detailed and totalized observation of behavior. It is the prevailing form of power developed and deployed in modernity

Panopticon

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The panopticon is a structure of power-knowledge, used by Michel Foucault to describe a system in which totalized surveillance can be organized.

Surveillance capitalism

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Surveillance capitalism is an economic order and logic that claims human experience and behavior as free raw material for commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.

Understanding Big Other: Self-recognition in the Web of Eyes

Academic paper

Jeroen van Aalst

18/08/2022

16 minutes to read

This paper examines Zuboff's "Big Other" and proposes to change this metaphor to "Web of Eyes" in order to stimulate a discourse that accounts for recognizing human self-responsibility and agency in this age of continuous surveillance.

Richard Barbrook on The Californian Ideology and the future

Video

The Editors

09/03/2022

When Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron wrote The Californian Ideology over 25 years ago, people believed the whole world would soon resemble the United States. Today, the situation appears much different. China appears to be the most futuristic country in the world and the United States, together with its monopolistic tech companies, might represent a past we'd want to leave behind sooner rather than later.

Ideology and Technology

File

In this new Diggit file, we bring together discourse analytical research on the ideological impact of the tech industry.

Image 1: Birds Aren’t Real van and the founder of the movement Peter McIndoe

Birds Aren't Real: a post-truth 'conspiracy' paradox

Article

Lily Francois

18/02/2022

7 minutes to read

The Birds Aren't Real is a parody social movement with a purpose: making fun of misinformation in a post-truth world dominated by online conspiracy theories

The CoronaMelder app: an internalized violation of privacy?

Paper

Ilse van Knegsel

08/11/2021

13 minutes to read

CoronaMelder is a hot topic, but the Dutch are not very willing to use the COVID tracking application. Is this because of privacy violations or do we not care about our privacy anymore?

Does a Fitbit make you healthier and happier?

Paper

Iris Olde Hampsink

06/09/2021

11 minutes to read

This article analyzes the app Fitbit, its aim and its game design elements. What makes Fitbit both successful and unsuccessful. Additionally, the article discusses what role participatory surveillance plays on the app.

The post-digital infrapolitics of Jurgen Conings

Article

Lisa van Turnhout

20/10/2021

10 minutes to read

The infrapolitics of Jurgen Conings in a post - digital and post - Christchurch world show social media leads to both more surveillance and more anonymous opportunities at the same time.

A motorcyclist holding up his middle finger

Motorcyclists and police surveillance: driving daringly without getting caught

Article

Emma Wieringa

27/04/2022

11 minutes to read

Some motorcyclists like to drive in ways that are prohibited by the law: too fast, with wheelies, and so on. What measures do they take to avoid surveillance on public roads, making them unfindable by the police?