It is such a bizarre phenomenon that we love to put ourselves out in the public sphere, yet at the same time cringe when people want to look out our profiled in public. It is strange that we love to watch, and love to be watched… but only if we do not know about it!
At work, every key stroke is recorded, every thing is watched. Even more importantly though, once something is written and sent out in e-mails… it is forever there. For a country that is so image conscious, there is surprisingly little analysis of how we present ourselves on sites like facebook.
It is amazing how under surveillance we are. I had applied for an internship last summer, and when I went in for an interview, every single person in the office knew who I was because my facebook picture had circulated around the office! I could not believe it. In one way it was great because it had exposed me, and put me out there, which could be one of the reasons that I got the job, but if I was not meticulous in how I presented myself, it could have backfired
The idea of the Panopticon, is completely interrelated with Marx’s ideas of ideology and hierarchy of power. We have a conception of class hierarchy because of these ideologies we have placed in our culture. Automatically, these affect how we fear the greater powers. Fear is definitely the KEY!
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