Superpanopticon

Superpanopticon (Relevant Points From Reading)

 * A new way of describing surveillance in the modern world
 * Uses databases to organize panoptic information
 * Electronic technologies permit the perfection of a panopticon through software architectures--> electronic surveillance
 * Superpanopticon constitutes objects, individuals with dispersed identities, who man remain unaware of how those identities are construed by the computer

From text (Chapter 22 - David Lyon - //New Directions in Theory -// The Information Society Reader)
 * Database is usually owned by a corporation, government, or an institution which is not directly visible to the individual
 * Individuals are generally aware that there is data being collected
 * Individuals "constantly participate in their own surveillance by making phone cell-phone calls, automated bank transactions, internet bookings and so on."
 * "Individuals are plugged into circuits of their own panoptic control"