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Watching Each Other: Foucault’s Panopticon and Confessional in Social Media

Posted on May 3, 2014 by araehug

Everyone knows when we post online, we’re being watched. The NSA, the FBI, Google, Facebook, Apple, Visa, ModCloth–they monitor our online activities for patterns that indicate danger or that can teach them to market directly to us; they monitor for … Continue reading →

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Social Media & The Digital Confessional: Full Outline

Posted on April 24, 2014 by araehug

Watching Each Other: Foucault’s Panopticon and Confessional in Online Sharing I. Intro a. Thesis: The internet, especially social media, can be read as Foucault’s confessional-turned-panopticon, in which people expose and put into language (text, pictures, videos, music) their experiences and … Continue reading →

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Social Media & The Digital Confessional: Outlining a long post

Posted on April 23, 2014 by araehug

Tentative Thesis: The internet, especially social media, can be read as Foucault’s confessional-turned-panopticon, in which people expose and put into language (text, pictures, videos, music) their experiences and stories, the process of which makes them subject those experiences to social discourse, … Continue reading →

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Richard Joyce, “Internet Surveillance: A Virtual Panopticon?”

Posted on April 21, 2014 by araehug

This short blog post appears to be part of Richard Joyce’s blog for a course at Bowdoin, and, similar to this blog, he’s thinking through some of his own thoughts in relation to what he’s read. The thrust of his thinking … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged annotation, bentham, bowdoin, confessional, dave eggers, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital story, exhibition, facebook, foucault, internet, panopticon, richard joyce, social media, sociology, story, surveillance, the circle | 2 Comments

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 →

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Indhu Rajagopal, “Does the Internet shape a disciplinary society? The information-knowledge paradox”

Posted on April 14, 2014 by araehug

Rajagopal’s essay considers the relationship between information and knowledge through a Foucauldian framework. This was a complex, dry argument, so I’m going to try to communicate what I understood, and what I might continue to think about. In the knowledge/power … Continue reading →

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Simon Copland, “The Culture of Confession”

Posted on April 13, 2014 by araehug

This short blog post on the Moonbat (Big ideas, big politics.) makes the same, limited move that much of what I’ve read before does: Copland begins with a nice little summary of Foucault’s confessional, and then turns to apply it … Continue reading →

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Three Voices: Taking a Bit from Jukuri’s Chapter in Stories from the Center

Posted on April 11, 2014 by araehug

Special Interest Group discussion in another class, Critical Issues in the Teaching of Writing: Histories, Theories and Practices of Writing Centers and One-to-One Teaching, brought me Stephen Davenport Jukuri’s chapter in Stories from the Center, “Negotiating the ‘Subject’ of Composition: Writing Centers … Continue reading →

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Mitchell McInnis, “Conversation with a Dead Man: Foucault on Facebook and Confession”

Posted on April 9, 2014 by araehug

Turning from panopticism (which I’m still unsure is a word) toward Foucault’s confessional, I look at Mitchell McInnis’ blog post from Hoboeye.com, which seems to be a possibly-temporarily-defunct online publication about wandering. I annotate this because the beginning raises an interesting … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Surveillance, etc: Planning

Posted on April 2, 2014 by araehug

I need to go out into the world and do some reading, but for now, for the Daily Create assignment, I’ll lay out a plan for attacking this thing. 1. Gonna do some reading–I have my crazy to-do list calendar. … Continue reading →

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