From Winston's Red Book to the Black Mirror: Control Devices in the Surveillance Society

dc.citation.journalTitlePalabra Clavespa
dc.contributor.departmentDepartamento de Humanidades
dc.contributor.researchgroupEstudios de Filosofía, Hermenéutica y Narrativasspa
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-04T20:56:19Z
dc.date.available2021-03-04T20:56:19Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-01
dc.description.abstractThis article presents a theoretical reflection on surveillance as a guarantor of social order. It states that the new surveillance assembly that started with the launch of the Internet tends towards absolute control of life through direct and violent coercion, or entertainment and fun. It deals with three significant surveillance devices, namely, panoptic as a meeting point between the disciplinary society we no longer are and the surveillance society we are becoming; synoptic or the monitoring and surveillance of private, intimate and emotional life; and predictive analytics or the preference for finding correlations among millions of available everyday data that intends, if not to explain the cause of phenomena, to look for new forms of coercion. The reasons why the operation of these devices makes contemporary society a surveillance society are also explored. In expounding the characteristics of each of these devices, the article aims to reveal the role of surveillance in regulating social life. Finally, it reflects on the loss of freedom that brings about the trust and security gained as a result of voluntary or sometimes thoughtless submission to new, subtle and apparently innocent modes of control such as joining social media, subscribing to electronic services, or using any of the most popular search engines.eng
dc.identifierhttps://eafit.fundanetsuite.com/Publicaciones/ProdCientif/PublicacionFrw.aspx?id=10265
dc.identifier.doi10.5294/pacla.2020.23.1.3
dc.identifier.issn01228285
dc.identifier.issn2027534X
dc.identifier.otherWOS;000512670800003
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10784/26349
dc.languagespa
dc.language.isospaeng
dc.publisherUniversidad de La Sabana
dc.rightshttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0122-8285
dc.sourcePalabra Clave
dc.subject.keywordSurveillance societyeng
dc.subject.keywordpanopticeng
dc.subject.keywordsynopticeng
dc.subject.keywordpredictive analyticseng
dc.subject.keywordcontrol deviceseng
dc.titleFrom Winston's Red Book to the Black Mirror: Control Devices in the Surveillance Societyeng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleeng
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioneng
dc.typepublishedVersioneng
dc.type.localArtículospa

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