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1	Social Political Discourse Of The Surveillance Society A Thesis Submitted To The Graduate School Of Social Sciences Of Middle East Technical University By Egemen Nilufer Yumurtaci In Partial Fulfillment Of The Re Yumurtaci, Egemen Nilufer 01 November 2003 (has links) (PDF) This thesis aims to discuss the Surveillance Society discourse, especially in relation with political analysis in a historical framework by means of new technologies. This study also analyzes the use of so-called revolutionary information and telecommunication technologies for data recording and tracking is analyzed, which is used to regulate the order of the system by the power holders. The limits of thought are traced to Foucault and Lyon. To this context an attempt is made to show that surveillance/ monitoring is growing as a result of the developments in information and communication technologies. Dataveillance is being carried out by Internet, ID cards, and bank credit cards. Focus is on awareness as a midway between paranoia and utopic futurism against surveillance suppression. H General Social Sciences 1-99
2	Surveillance And Control In The Age Of Information: A Critical Analysis Of The Technology-power Relationship Kurt, Evren 01 February 2010 (has links) (PDF) This study deals with the notions and practices of surveillance and control in the current society. By this means, it aims to discuss the relation between technology and power on basis of surveillance technologies witnessed in all domains of life. With the extensive use of new technologies as camera monitoring, biometrics, and smart cards, power holders get the opportunity and tools to monitor all actions and data of individuals. How this is achieved and for what purposes and the ideology behind the surveillance practices are the main issues of this study. In accordance with this goal, the use of surveillance technologies as a tool of power to provide rationalization in which everything is visible, predictable, and controllable, to maintain social control, and to ensure the domination of power over the society is discussed through examining the applications of surveillance in Turkey and in other countries. Besides, the becoming of surveillance and control as natural and usual aspects of the current society in the eyes of people and their becoming a culture are also pointed out and analyzed in order to comprehend the location of these notions in everyday life. All these issues are discussed critically in order to analyze the role and ideological function of surveillance, in particular, and the relation of technology with power, in general. H General Social Sciences 1-99
3	Utopias in the Digital Age: Uncovering the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Facial Recognition Meng, Zimo 06 December 2023 (has links) The concept and practice of surveillance has long existed in our society, yet with the development of technology, it has taken on new forms and capabilities. As a result, surveillance technology has become integrated in our society, influencing norms and shaping imaginaries surrounding it. While many existing studies have thoroughly examined people's experiences with surveillance technologies, there has been little attention paid to the efforts of advocacy groups in challenging and reshaping the mainstream imaginaries regarding surveillance technology. Using narrative analysis, this thesis aims to address this gap and explore the sociotechnical imaginaries surrounding facial recognition technology of four advocacy groups: a) Fight for the Future, b) Big Brother Watch, c) Electronic Frontier Foundation, d) Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. This study uncovers that these groups' shared sociotechnical imaginary aligns closely with modern liberal ideals, highlighting the possibility of separating public and private life, the necessity for not only moderate government intervention, but healthy commercial competitions, as well as public education. In other words, I argue that resisting against a particular technology and its associated power dynamics does not always represent a challenge to the fundamental power structure. Surveillance Technology Surveillance Society Sociotechnical Imaginaries Facial Recognition Technology Advocacy Groups Resistance and Challenges
4	Narratives on the Watch: Bodies, Images, & Technologies of Control in Contemporary Surveillance Cinema Naveh, Jonathan January 2014 (has links) No description available. Film Studies surveillance cinema control power figuration surveillance image surveillance society surveillance culture normalization technological mediation otherness race, class, gender
5	The Surveillance Camera Players : Ett konstnärligt motstånd mot övervakningssamhället / The Surveillance Camera Players : An artistic manifestation against the surveillance society Lind, Mia, Sundblad, Eva January 2003 (has links) <p>The purpose with this essay is to examine how arts and politics integrate to raise urgent messages and call upon social changes. Performance art as an artistic manifestation against the surveillance society has been studied to clarify this integration and through an empirical examination of the anarchistic performance group <i>The Surveillance Camera Players</i>. This group formed in New York City 1996 as a manifestation against the increased use of surveillance cameras in public places in Manhattan. Through performance in front of these cameras, The Surveillance Camera Players are able to express their protest against the surveillance society which, occurring to them, violates citizens constitutionally right to privacy. The development and signification of the surveillance society are examined through theoretical perspective by foremost Michel Foucault, but also by contemporary scientist in that field. Theories about political art have been studied for the understanding of the work of <i>The Surveillance Camera Players</i>.</p> / <p>Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur konst och politik integreras i syfte att föra fram ett budskap och på så sätt försöka påverka till samhällsförändringar. För att tydliggöra detta studeras performancekonst som ett konstnärligt motstånd mot övervakningssamhället och detta exemplifieras genom en empirisk undersökning av den anarkistiska teatergruppen <i>The Surveillance Camera Players, SCP</i>. Denna grupp bildades i New York City 1996, som en manifestation mot det ökande användandet av övervakningskameror på offentliga platser på Manhattan. Genom performance, framför dessa kameror, ger SCP uttryck för sitt motstånd mot övervakningssamhället, som enligt dem, kränker medborgarnas konstitutionella rätt till privatliv. I uppsatsen studeras övervakningssamhällets utveckling och betydelse genom ett teoretiskt perspektiv av framförallt Michel Foucault och även samtida forskare inom området. För förståelsen av <i>The Surveillance Camera Players</i> verksamhet studeras teorier kring politiskt medveten konst. </p> Interdisciplinary studies Övervakningssamhälle the surveillance camera players motstånd performance konst politik offentlighet Surveillance society protest manifestation performance art politics public TVÄRVETENSKAP INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN
6	The Surveillance Camera Players : Ett konstnärligt motstånd mot övervakningssamhället / The Surveillance Camera Players : An artistic manifestation against the surveillance society Lind, Mia, Sundblad, Eva January 2003 (has links) The purpose with this essay is to examine how arts and politics integrate to raise urgent messages and call upon social changes. Performance art as an artistic manifestation against the surveillance society has been studied to clarify this integration and through an empirical examination of the anarchistic performance group The Surveillance Camera Players. This group formed in New York City 1996 as a manifestation against the increased use of surveillance cameras in public places in Manhattan. Through performance in front of these cameras, The Surveillance Camera Players are able to express their protest against the surveillance society which, occurring to them, violates citizens constitutionally right to privacy. The development and signification of the surveillance society are examined through theoretical perspective by foremost Michel Foucault, but also by contemporary scientist in that field. Theories about political art have been studied for the understanding of the work of The Surveillance Camera Players. / Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur konst och politik integreras i syfte att föra fram ett budskap och på så sätt försöka påverka till samhällsförändringar. För att tydliggöra detta studeras performancekonst som ett konstnärligt motstånd mot övervakningssamhället och detta exemplifieras genom en empirisk undersökning av den anarkistiska teatergruppen The Surveillance Camera Players, SCP. Denna grupp bildades i New York City 1996, som en manifestation mot det ökande användandet av övervakningskameror på offentliga platser på Manhattan. Genom performance, framför dessa kameror, ger SCP uttryck för sitt motstånd mot övervakningssamhället, som enligt dem, kränker medborgarnas konstitutionella rätt till privatliv. I uppsatsen studeras övervakningssamhällets utveckling och betydelse genom ett teoretiskt perspektiv av framförallt Michel Foucault och även samtida forskare inom området. För förståelsen av The Surveillance Camera Players verksamhet studeras teorier kring politiskt medveten konst. Interdisciplinary studies Övervakningssamhälle the surveillance camera players motstånd performance konst politik offentlighet Surveillance society protest manifestation performance art politics public TVÄRVETENSKAP Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
7	Vidění a moc. Porovnání konceptů Guye Deborda a Michela Foucaulta / Vision and Power. A comparison between the concepts of Guy Debord and Michael Foucault Bučilová, Pavla January 2014 (has links) This thesis aims to analyse the similarities and differences in Guy Debords' and Michel Foucaults' approaches to the relationship of vision and power. Its purpose is to show the power of visual discourse and define whether it is possible for society to resist or escape from this power. The thesis is methodologically based on the distincion of political and philosophical thoughts of both authors: according to Debord, society emerges from the power of the spectacle through the non-capitalist class order of society, alternatively, Foucault sees power relations as a set of practices that permeate the entire society and each one of us. These are practices which we are formed by and which we also form ouselves. Therefore, it is impossible for him to overcome or completely eliminate interconnection of power and vision from society. Based on this distinction, the thesis attempts to verify the assumption that Debord's inspiration by Marxism does not allow him to reflect the relationship of vision and power in its whole range in the context of non-capitalist order. Unlike Foucault's concept of surveillance, Debord's theory of spectacle is utopian.
8	Exploring the Help-seeking / Helping Dynamic in Illegal Drug Use Polych, Carol 01 March 2011 (has links) Heuristic qualitative research techniques (Moustakas,1990) were used to explore the dynamic of the help-seeking / helping relationship in illegal drug use from the perspective of the professional. Six professionals, expert in helping people living with an addiction, shared their opinions and insights, analyzed problems, explained the rewards, and made recommendations for improvement, based on their own practices within the health care and social services systems. These professionals identify stigma as a major barrier to the provision of quality care in addictions, and analysis shows that a cultural predilection for scapegoating underlies the application of stigma. The many layered social purposes served by the designation of certain substances as illegal and the utility of scapegoating to hegemonic, vested interests is surveyed. This thesis reviews the true social costs of addictions, the entrenched and enmeshed nature of the alternate economy, and the many above ground institutions and professions sustained by the use of drugs designated as illegal. Prohibition and imprisonment as a response to illegal drug use is exposed as costly, inhumane, dangerous, and overwhelmingly counterproductive in terms of limiting harm from illegal drug use. A recent example of drug prohibition propaganda is deconstructed. Consideration is given to the role of the Drug War as a vehicle to accelerate social creep toward a fragmented self-disciplining surveillance society of consumer-producers in the service of economic elites. Classism is brought forward from a fractured social ground characterized by many splits: sexism, racism, age-ism, able-ism, size-ism, locationism, linguism, and others, to better track the nature of the social control that illegal drugs offer to economic elites. The moral loading that surrounds illegal drug use is deconstructed and the influence of religion is presented for discussion. The primitive roots of human understanding that endorse the ritual Drug War and its supporting mythology, leading to the demonization of illegal drugs and the people who use them, are uncovered. Direction is taken from Benner and Wrubel’s Primacy of Caring (1989) and other leaders in the professions as a means to move practitioners away from their roles as agents of social control into a paradigm of social change. addiction illegal drugs helping-seeking / helping helping relationship stigma anomie illegalization heuristic research professionalization consumerism arts-informed research Benner & Wrubel Goffman Link & Phelan Moustakas quality of care scapegoating prohibition prison harm-reduction drug propaganda drug war surveillance society classism elitism discrimination barriers to care mythology social control drug demonization teaching health care mental health infectious disease industrial disease Wittgenstein hegemony policing legalization education training power social violence institutionalized violence care attitude marginalization alienation Marx Chomsky infectious disease communicable disease 0516 0347 0627 0573 0700
9	Exploring the Help-seeking / Helping Dynamic in Illegal Drug Use Polych, Carol 01 March 2011 (has links) Heuristic qualitative research techniques (Moustakas,1990) were used to explore the dynamic of the help-seeking / helping relationship in illegal drug use from the perspective of the professional. Six professionals, expert in helping people living with an addiction, shared their opinions and insights, analyzed problems, explained the rewards, and made recommendations for improvement, based on their own practices within the health care and social services systems. These professionals identify stigma as a major barrier to the provision of quality care in addictions, and analysis shows that a cultural predilection for scapegoating underlies the application of stigma. The many layered social purposes served by the designation of certain substances as illegal and the utility of scapegoating to hegemonic, vested interests is surveyed. This thesis reviews the true social costs of addictions, the entrenched and enmeshed nature of the alternate economy, and the many above ground institutions and professions sustained by the use of drugs designated as illegal. Prohibition and imprisonment as a response to illegal drug use is exposed as costly, inhumane, dangerous, and overwhelmingly counterproductive in terms of limiting harm from illegal drug use. A recent example of drug prohibition propaganda is deconstructed. Consideration is given to the role of the Drug War as a vehicle to accelerate social creep toward a fragmented self-disciplining surveillance society of consumer-producers in the service of economic elites. Classism is brought forward from a fractured social ground characterized by many splits: sexism, racism, age-ism, able-ism, size-ism, locationism, linguism, and others, to better track the nature of the social control that illegal drugs offer to economic elites. The moral loading that surrounds illegal drug use is deconstructed and the influence of religion is presented for discussion. The primitive roots of human understanding that endorse the ritual Drug War and its supporting mythology, leading to the demonization of illegal drugs and the people who use them, are uncovered. Direction is taken from Benner and Wrubel’s Primacy of Caring (1989) and other leaders in the professions as a means to move practitioners away from their roles as agents of social control into a paradigm of social change. addiction illegal drugs helping-seeking / helping helping relationship stigma anomie illegalization heuristic research professionalization consumerism arts-informed research Benner & Wrubel Goffman Link & Phelan Moustakas quality of care scapegoating prohibition prison harm-reduction drug propaganda drug war surveillance society classism elitism discrimination barriers to care mythology social control drug demonization teaching health care mental health infectious disease industrial disease Wittgenstein hegemony policing legalization education training power social violence institutionalized violence care attitude marginalization alienation Marx Chomsky infectious disease communicable disease 0516 0347 0627 0573 0700

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