SURVEILLANCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
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Surveillance and Technology
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Surveillance and Technology
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1SURVEILLANCE AND TECHNOLOGY
What is the relationship between surveillance and technology? How does Hollywood
typically represent surveillance? What value does Foucault’s reading of the panopticon
offer us in terms of understanding this imagination? How does the panopticon inform
strategies of counter-surveillance and, perhaps, might point towards their limited
ability for achieving racial and social justice? In making your argument, you might
want to think about how the limits of counter-surveillance practices challenge Valerie
Smith’s focus on a “documentary impulse” from our readings.
Surveillance is one of the essential outcome of advancement of technology. They go
conjointly which has evolved the work-ways of the crime department
(Historynewsnetwork.org). The upgradations in the surveillance equipment due to the
progress of technology has made the works of the police easier and the national security
processes more swift and sound.
Since their origin in the nineteenth century mass-media and surveillance system have
been sharing a reciprocal relation (Becker). ‘Time Code’ was the first movie where the
experiments regarding surveillance and CCTVs were made. Gradually, Hollywood has
observed an array of films where the usage of CCTV has been both positively and negatively
illustrated and the impacts or consequences of the same have been exposed such as, Panic
Room, Minority Report and Enemy of the State.
In this regard, the name of Valerie smith is worth mentioning who observed that with
the invention of moving pictures the lives of the Africans and Africa- Americans became an
interesting subject to be projected in the movies which has in turn contributed to the
empowerment of Africans across the world.
The concept Panopticon was coined by Postmodernist thinker Foucault, which is an
analysis of the dynamics of power and knowledge. His work was later extended by Jeremy
What is the relationship between surveillance and technology? How does Hollywood
typically represent surveillance? What value does Foucault’s reading of the panopticon
offer us in terms of understanding this imagination? How does the panopticon inform
strategies of counter-surveillance and, perhaps, might point towards their limited
ability for achieving racial and social justice? In making your argument, you might
want to think about how the limits of counter-surveillance practices challenge Valerie
Smith’s focus on a “documentary impulse” from our readings.
Surveillance is one of the essential outcome of advancement of technology. They go
conjointly which has evolved the work-ways of the crime department
(Historynewsnetwork.org). The upgradations in the surveillance equipment due to the
progress of technology has made the works of the police easier and the national security
processes more swift and sound.
Since their origin in the nineteenth century mass-media and surveillance system have
been sharing a reciprocal relation (Becker). ‘Time Code’ was the first movie where the
experiments regarding surveillance and CCTVs were made. Gradually, Hollywood has
observed an array of films where the usage of CCTV has been both positively and negatively
illustrated and the impacts or consequences of the same have been exposed such as, Panic
Room, Minority Report and Enemy of the State.
In this regard, the name of Valerie smith is worth mentioning who observed that with
the invention of moving pictures the lives of the Africans and Africa- Americans became an
interesting subject to be projected in the movies which has in turn contributed to the
empowerment of Africans across the world.
The concept Panopticon was coined by Postmodernist thinker Foucault, which is an
analysis of the dynamics of power and knowledge. His work was later extended by Jeremy
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