Abstract:Its ominous-sounding subtitle, Panopticon, refers to the prison designed by Jeremy Bentham in the eighteenth century to facilitate the constant observation of prisoners without their awareness of when they were being observed. Although the design was never constructed, the term has come to be applied to societies practicing widespread surveillance. The homepage of the conference (www.cfp2005.org), provides the following information on how Panopticon came to be the theme:`O ver time, and particularly recently, … Show more
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