Today’s session was quite an eye-opener, I don’t think I realise that we are under surveillance. All I did was click a few buttons and within seconds my all of my family information was displayed on the big wide web, and if I signed up for membership I would be able to access my full address. I think I have been quite oblivious towards this issue and not realising that it is a very serious matter. Only today it occurred to me how easy it is to access our intimate data on the web. I also realised how much of Foucault’s theory has been taken into effect in today’s society. I can see how his ideas and abstract terms have become part of our ways of thinking and understanding the world. One the best examples of his work would be Bentham’s theory based on the Panopticon, which is a method for a single guard to see every prisoner, but for no prisoner to see anything else, witch intern will make the prisoner act as if they were under surveillance at all times. But what Foucault claimed was that the machinery of the web forms as a kind of camouflaged panopticon. Cables that bring information into our homes today are technically capables that are bringing information out of our homes instantly, and then transmitted to others. Which then makes me wonder how much of our private information is actually being abused.
RHEINGOLD. Howard (2000) The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, London: MIT Press
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