In 3 sentences:
The document discusses how digital technologies can enable addiction and surveillance, extracting human behaviors from physical contexts into discrete data flows. It notes how physicians may feel uncomfortable enabling coercive monitoring like ankle bracelets but prioritize patients' long-term health. Finally, it suggests that while media can surveil, it also represents a contested space that may allow for oppositional voices and contradictions to dominant narratives.
12. “As a physician, I remain uncomfortable aiding and abetting coercive measures
like SCRAM. But this concern is overshadowed by a far greater one surrounding
[John’s] long term health”
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14. Possibility of Resistance?
“Media represent a contested space, offering some potential openings
for oppositional voices…contradictions in dominant discourse. ”
-Aaron Doyle, 2011
Notas do Editor
Haggerty, Kevin D. and R.V. Ericson (2000). The Surveillant Assemblage. British Journal of Sociology. 51(4). 605-622.
WHAT QUESTIONS ARE ASKED? WHAT DON”T GET ASKED?
http://www.eonline.com/news/182713/can-lindsay-lohan-scam-her-scram-bracelet
NEW IDEA EMBEDDED IN LONG_STANDING ONES
Michelle Rodriguez – Resistance?
“forcing people to stay off alcohol can be an enlightening experience”
“Compulsory Sobriety” program in South London, based on the idea that these programs have had “a transformative effect” on alcohol-fuelled crime in the US.
Doyle, A. 2011. Revisiting the synopticon: Reconsidering Mathiesen’s ‘The Viewer Society’ in the age of Web 2.0. Theoretical Criminology. 15(1). 283-299.