The Discipline of Watching: Detection, Risk, and Lateral Surveillance

Mark Andrejevic

118 citations0/0 files storedCritical Studies in Media Communication

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Cultural Studies and Postmodernism Media and Digital Communication Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

Abstract

After considering how surveillance practices discipline the objects of the monitoring gaze, I argue for a focus on the discipline of watching. An era of reflexive skepticism and generalized risk puts a premium on the ability to see through public façades by relying on strategies of detection and verification facilitated by interactive communication technologies that allow users to monitor one another. Interactive communication technologies allow for peer-to-peer surveillance of friends, significant others, and family members. If, in commercial and state contexts, the promise of interactivity serves as a ruse for asymmetrical and nontransparent forms of monitoring, this model of interactivity has also infiltrated the deployment of interactive technologies in personal relationships.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 118 citations exist upstream.

References

1996Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.1949Cybernetics. Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine 2004The future of competition: co-creating unique value with customers 1997Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government 1938The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud 1993The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy Of Personal Information 1988Undercover 2006INTRODUCTION

Cited by

2011Audience labor in the new media environment: A Marxian revisiting of the audience commodity 2008Performing Race in Flavor of Love and The Bachelor 2010Socially mediated authenticity 2018The surveillant consumer 2014Elite Tweets: Analyzing the Twitter Communication Patterns of Labour Party Peers in the House of Lords 2011Understanding what determines consumers' expanded use of mobile videophones

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.