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Ok I can’t comment on people’s posts for some reason, but I 100% agree with Maya’s take on Foucault’s Panopticon.
This was also not my first time engaging with The Panopticon, and there are so many things that you can apply his theory to. In today’s day and age, you never know who is watching. There are cameras everywhere. Social media certainly does not help this idea of surveillance, for everything is documented and posted online. That is what makes me so weary of these internet families that we see on YouTube and Tik Tok. It is now considered “trendy” to have children and some of these huge influencers, like the LaBrant family (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4-CH0epzZpD_ARhxCx6LaQ/videos), have a camera on their kids from the moment they are born. Every little thing about their lives is shared and they have no privacy.
These kids might have a lot of difficulty as they grow up because they have been “acting” in front of a camera since they were babies. Maybe it will be like a The Truman Show situation where they do not realize it for a while and do not know any different, but what happens when they do realize how they are constantly being watched? How will this affect the way they socialize and behave on a regular basis?
There are a lot of cons to surveillance, but there are also some pros to it. Back to what Maya was discussing, there is power in surveillance. The example she gave about how Black people start recording when they are pulled over by police as a means of insurance in case anything happens can be considered a pro of surveillance. As Maya said, the camera and “the surveillance enact as a power dynamic that makes cops uneasy that they’re being watched.” Surveillance can help people to feel safer and more secure, but at the same time, there are many complex issues that come along with it.
That is all for now!
Signing off,
Aveyourfaveblogger
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