Synoptic Surveillance

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What does Mathiesen argue about in late modernity?
There is an increase in both the top-down surveillance that Foucault discusses, and in surveillance from below
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What is the 'Synoptic'?
where everybody watches everybody
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Who does this include?
media scrutiny of powerful groups, and members of the public monitoring each other or filming police wrongdoing
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Evaluation Sociologist
MaCahill
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Evaluation
MaCahill argues that this doesn't reverse the established 'hierarchies of surveillance'
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where everybody watches everybody

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Evaluation Sociologist

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