Panopticism Is Not Enough: Social Media as Technologies of Voluntary Servitude
| Autor: | Francesco Gallino, Alberto Romele, Daniele Gorgone, Camilla Emmenegger |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institute of Philosophy, Universidade do Porto, Universidade do Porto, Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Subjectivity
Emancipation Panopticism [SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences social media Control (management) Happening 050801 communication & media studies Context (language use) [SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences 0508 media and communications 0502 economics and business Panopticon Social media Sociology Panoptic technology Law and economics Foucault 05 social sciences [SHS.PHIL]Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy 16. Peace & justice voluntary servitude surveillance [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science Urban Studies Law Social media analysis 050211 marketing La Boétie Etienne de Safety Research |
| Zdroj: | Surveillance and Society Surveillance and Society, Surveillance Studies Network, 2017 |
| ISSN: | 1477-7487 |
| Popis: | International audience; This article aims to integrate the existing theoretical framework for thinking the power relations between individuals and sociotechnical systems in social media. In the first section, the authors show how Panopticism found breeding ground in social media studies. Yet they claim that despite an expanding critical literature, not much seems to be changing in prosumers’ practices online. Their hypothesis is that this is happening not only because individuals are forced or cheated by the sociotechnical systems, as it has been usually argued, but also because they voluntarily submit to them. For this reason, in the second section, the authors introduce the notion of voluntary servitude, coined by Étienne de la Boétie in the XVIth century. Voluntary servitude is a paradoxical notion because it represents the attempt of tidying up two opposite facts: human beings’ will of freedom and their reiterated submission. In the third section, they make the notion operative in the context of social media by focusing on privacy as the counter-discourse of surveillance. In conclusion, the authors deal with the emancipatory character of voluntary servitude, as well as with the concept of subjectivity it entails. |
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