Panopticon

Chapitres de livre

Hacking the Panopticon: distributed online surveillance and resistance

Surveillance studies scholars have embraced Foucault’s panopticon as a central metaphor in their analysis of online monitoring technologies, despite several architectural incompatibilities between eighteenth and nineteenth century prisons and twenty-first century computer networks. I highlight a number of Internet features that highlight the limits of the electronic panopticon. I examine two trends that have been […] Lire la suite