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Ki Mae Heussner, “Digital Confessionals: Tweeting Away Your Vices”

Posted on April 22, 2014 by araehug

This article explores the use of social media as a way to motivate/shame yourself into meeting a goal, like losing weight, monitoring your spending, or quitting smoking. The author looks at one man who lost weight by tweeting his caloric intake, … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged abc news, annotation, behavior, budget, confessional, digital confessional, digital English, digital humanities, digital story, english, facebook, foucault, health, hegemony, ki mae heussner, lose weight, myspace, narrative, panopticon, self-policing, smoking, social norms, tweetwhatyoueat, tweetwhatyouspend, twitter | 1 Comment

Jenny Hollander, “YouTube Video of Matthew Cordle Latest to Post Murder ‘Confession’ on Internet”

Posted on April 15, 2014 by araehug

Last year, Because I said I would, a website that helps people post a commitment they are making, posted the above video on YouTube, featuring Matthew Cordle confessing to drunk driving the wrong way on a highway and killing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged annotation, because i said i would, behavior, bustle, confession, crime, criminal, criminal justice, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital media, facebook, foucault, hegemony, internet confession, jail, jenny hollander, justice, matthew cordle, panopticon, police, postsecret, reddit, self-policing, social media, social norms, society, tumblr, twitter, victim, youtube | 1 Comment

Tom Brignall III, “The New Panopticon – The Internet Viewed as a Structure of Social Control”

Posted on April 8, 2014 by araehug

I would have never guessed that this article was post-9/11, but according to this vaguely-identified HTML version of it, it was published in 2002. I don’t know why no one has considered the panopticon and the internet more recently, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged arab spring, barack obama, bentham, big brother, brignall, capitalism, confessional, corporations, counter culture, digital humanities, digital media, digital panopticon, foucault, hegemony, internet, liberation, liberatory, panopticon, policing, privacy, self-oppression, self-policing, social control, surveillance, tom brignall iii | 1 Comment

James Boyle, “Foucault in Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and Hardwired Censors”

Posted on April 6, 2014 by araehug

Jeez, I thought the last article I read was too old. This 1997 article applies a somewhat Foucauldian framework to thinking about the “Holy Trinity” of the internet in its adolescence–three ideas which have had a profound impact and may be … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged CDA, censorship, democracy, discipline and punish, foucault, foucault in cyberspace, free expression, free information, hardwired censors, internet, internet culture, Internet Holy Trinity, james boyle, monarchy, net, netizens, online, policing, power, self-policing, sovereignty, surveillance, V-chip, web | 1 Comment

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