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Surveillance
SOC 226
| Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| What does it mean when we say that surveillance has a Janus-headed nature? | It is dual-sided and multifaceted |
| Surveillance is both bound by and operates outside of ____. | Time |
| In regards to time and participation, surveillance is _____________ | Paradoxical |
| What is metadata? | The information that contextualizes data. (Who/What/When/Where) |
| Surveillance digs into a set of behaviors that all deal with ____________ and its study. | Information |
| How is micro-surveillance defined? | By individuals, their interactions/relationships, and by psychology |
| How is macro-surveillance defined? | By institutions and systems |
| Surveillance requires both a surveillance _________ and _________ | Subject and Agent |
| What is Kranzberg’s First Law of Technology? | Technology is neither good or bad; nor is it neutral. |
| Surveillance is, consistently, an expression and deployment of ________. | Power |
| The first use of the word surveillance came from the ______ _________ | French Revolution |
| What are the 3 historical eras of surveillance? | Pre-Industrial, Industrial, and Post-Industrial |
| What's is the Pre-Industrial surveillance concept of God's Eye? | The idea that God is watching over all of one's actions, which encourages self-surveillance. It relied on Church prevalence |
| The Industrial era of surveillance is characterized by increased ____________ | Urbanization |
| What were the goals of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834? | Identify idleness, sort the poor into workhouses, and “encourage industriousness” |
| Which era of surveillance saw the rise of bureaucracy? | The Industrial Era |
| Industrial-Era surveillance revolved around technological change & the rise of ___________ | Biometrics |
| What were the first cameras used for? | Objective criminal identification |
| ____________ amplify the bureaucratic tendency toward information collection. | Computers |
| __________ is an attempt to explain a natural or social phenomenon | Theory |
| At his core, George Orwell was an extremely anti-_____________ man. | Authoritarian |
| What is Utilitarianism? | A belief that our actions should maximize happiness and minimize harm |
| In a panopticon, one can see all, but ____________________ | None can see the One |
| How does the panopticon instill self-surveillance? | Because subjects do not know whether or not they're being watched at any moment, they act as if they are. |
| In the panopticon, the uncertainty of surveillance serves as means of _____________ | Subordination |
| Who CAME UP WITH the idea of the panopticon? | Jeremy Bentham |
| Who famously built upon the idea of the panopticon in his writing? | Michel Foucault |
| The panopticon revolves around the ___________ gaze | Asymmetrical |
| Foucault described the panopticon's effect on power as _____________ | Homogenous |
| What kind of "docile bodies" does the panopticon create? | Useful individuals |
| Foucault described power as being ___________ | Relational |
| What is the Hawthorne Effect? | A principle by which people adjust and improve their behavior when they’re aware that they’re being observed. |
| Whose criticism of the panopticon did we discuss in class? | Haggerty |
| Haggerty finds the view of panopticism to be _____________, for it is ubiquitous as a theoretical frame | Oppressive |
| Are all subjects/agents in a system of surveillance human? | Not necessarily |
| Surveillance often establishes & reinforces social ______________. | Inequalities |
| What is Social Sorting? | A process of verifying identities and assessing risks/worth. |
| What does Gill discuss in regards to Media Surveillance and women? | Many media forms are dedicated to the dissection of women’s bodies |
| What factor did Gill believe was often omitted from surveillance studies? | Gender |
| Like with gender inequalities, surveillance often establishes & reinforces _________ inequalities. | Racial |
| Surveillance practices, policies, and performances concern the production of _____ _______ pertaining to race. | Social Norms |
| In terms of race, in our surveillance society, __________ is privileged. | Whiteness |
| Is biometric data collection inherently racist? | No but it can perpetuate racial issues. |
| What were the Lantern Laws? | Laws that allowed authorities to detain those deemed disorderly on the basis that people of color were not holding a lantern while unaccompanied at night |
| What is Racial Profiling? | When law enforcement officials target individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, |
| What is Carding? | When police randomly question members of the public for the purposes of collecting personal information without a legitimate investigative reason. |
| What are Cointelpro? | FBI-run projects run to surveil, infiltrate, and disrupt groups/parties perceived to be subversive |
| What is the OPC? | Canada’s federal privacy oversight body |
| How have credit scores been a positive form of surveillance? | They reduce the impacts of racism on individuals and provide an objective measure of identifying people for first responders, teachers, and hiring jobs. |
| In surveillance studies, what are the 3 Big Denials? | “No one cares about little ol’ me" “If you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about” The belief that your privacy is protected by laws and users agreements |
| Simplistic dichotomies can be ________ | Misleading |
| What structure is Bentham's panopticon based on? | An annular building with a tower at the center |
| The panopticon is _________ in its applications | Polyvalent |
| Which century invented the techniques of discipline and the examination? | The 18th century |
| As biometric surveillance interest grows, it classifies some bodies as normative _____ and some as ________ and out-of-bounds | Legal and illegal |
| There is no form of surveillance that is _________ | Innocent |
| The ______ ____ uses technologies to collect, monitor or record and potentially share information about oneself | Quantified Self |
| Postfeminism’s sensibility share strong links with __________ values | Neoliberal |
| Neoliberalism is characterized by processes of _______________________ | Privatisation |
| The _______ ________ of women's bodies occurs in advertising campaigns and in celebrity magazines | Forensic dissection |
| What is the Girlfriend Gaze? | The way in which women surveil and potentially police each other's looks and behaviors |
| In the postfeminist economy of visibility, men are frequently imagined as bearers of a more ________ gaze, with women the ones who both appreciate and attack other women | Benign |
| The Girlfriend Gaze is a form of _________ policing | Homosocial |
| Which gender is the primary object of horizontal surveillance? | Women |
| In art, according to Berger, "men _____ and women ________" | Look & Appear |
| Mug books helped construct ‘________’ and ‘________’ identities | Insider & Outsider |
| What is PIPEDA? | Canada's private sector privacy law; it relates to businesses |
| PIPEDA is a _________-based law | Principles |
| Privacy, as a concept, is rooted in liberal _____________ | Individualism |
| ________ enumeration fixes individuals within a particular time, and renders a population susceptible to racialization and gendering | Census |
| In the Census, whiteness is an ___________ category | Unspecified |
| What are biometrics? | A technology of measuring the body used for verification and identification purposes, enabling the body to function as evidence |
| Privacy protection has been a matter of _______ policy | Public |
| Privacy is typically articulated as a ______, which can create problematic discourse | Right |