Fragment: Towards the Age of Coveillance?
Tony Hirst,
OUseful Info,
Apr 20, 2020
From this article on coveillance - the surveillance we do of each other. "It seems reasonable to posit that the shift to an information-rich, publicity-oriented environment would affect the collective understanding of selfhood. Many theorists of the networked information society argue that the relationship between self and society is undergoing fundamental change." As always, I ask whether this applies to myself. And I think it does and it doesn't. But I grew up in a small town where everybody knew everybody, and to me the fear of surveillance feels like a very urban concern. To me, the similarities between (say) Twitter and high school are striking, for example, "the emergence and increasing primacy of forms of collective consciousness that are 'tribal,' or essentialized and politicized."
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