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Reading 22
__Impact of Computers on__ Surveillance Four Strands //*These 4 strands attempt to explain why surveillance is so important to modernity//
 * Nation State
 * Allow for surveillance of nation state, as depicted in George Orwell’s 1984
 * Computerization enhances and extends familiar processes of surveillance
 * Give rise to services such as the KGB, Stasi etc.
 * Closely related to Nation State but by Max Weber
 * Fear is instilled by uncertainty
 * La Technique
 * Integrates the machine into society
 * The machine searches relentlessly for the one best way to operate and in doing so erodes human agency
 * Gandy’s “The Panoptic Sort"
 * The rationalization of marketing
 * Believes that consumer surveillance operates on panoptic principles. Whereby personal data is used to sort populations into consuming types

__Superpanopticon__
 * A new way of describing surveillance in the modern world
 * Uses databases to organize panoptic information

Hypersurveillance
 * Intensifies surveillance and attempts to take it to the absolute limit
 * Attempts to “see” first (the purpose of surveillance)