About Panopticon - 신명주 Myeong Ju, Shin

MAIN TOPIC : INFORMATION PANOPTICON OF MODERN SOCIETY

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 I do not well SNS in the usual. I think that so fun like Facebook or Instagram which my friends do.  Becuase I continue to feel that someone was being a guard.


 1791, United Kingdom when a lack of prison to accommodate too many prisoners, "What if a small number of guards could be monitor effectively a large number of prisoners?" This question was a big buzzword called. Then Bentham proposed a form of a prison. It is the panopticon that circular prison. Panopticon is a handful of guards into the center of the circular that prisoners can not see them and without exposing themselves monitor prisoners.

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 But in modern society it exist these panopticon, that is information panopticon. Computers, the Internet, a number of CCTV, etc. all help a small number of powerful. So, they more easily and secretly monitor the number of citizens and more effectiveness.


 Bentham's panopticon is mandatory and a small number of powerful monitoring unilaterally. But current information panopticon is monitered by a cooperative that is, a surveillance yet know that being watched for their own safety. And in modern panopticon, the number of citizens are possible monitoring the minority powerful.


 I think that SNS have a big influence. So I usually do not well SNS but I think published deliberately after thought.