A New State of Surveillance? Applying Michel Foucault to Modern Motherhood

Henderson, Angie C.; Harmon, Sandra M; Houser, Jeffrey A.

doi:10.24908/ss.v7i3/4.4153

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“…She goes, "I don't want to leave my phone down here, I don't want it down on the This pleasure in catching youth was by no means derived from the unwanted imposition of parental order on the lives of youth, but rather from the sense that by becoming "the meanest parents" they were becoming the safest parents. Arguably, the pressure to perform good parenthood was heightened within focus group sessions, as parent participants actively monitored and openly supported the surveillance strategies of other participants (Henderson, Harmon, and Houser 2010;Knowles 1996). Strategies for parental "meanness" invariably centered around surveillance, and those who failed to engage in such practices were seen as bad, disinterested parents.…”

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“...when no one is hearing them swear” - Youth Safety and the Pedagogy of Surveillance

Fisk

2014

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In this piece I examine the production and proliferation of adult surveillance practices online through internet safety discourses. Specifically, through an analysis of youth internet safety curricula provided to adults, along with interviews with parents, law enforcement officers and school officials, I describe the mechanisms by which adults are positioned as agents of surveillance relative to social networks and youth internet practice. As I argue, youth internet safety discourses represent what can be conceptualized as a pedagogy of surveillance-reconfiguring both adult and youth conceptions of online practice in ways which establish "trusted adults" as final arbiters of risk and appropriateness, while casting suspicion on the everyday social practices of youth. Through the pedagogy of surveillance provided by youth internet safety materials, parents and guardians are encouraged to conceptualize social networking sites and other information technologies used by youth as surveillance tools, rather than as social spaces. Additionally, these materials provide adults with a particular conceptual frame through which to make sense of youth sociality online, commonly interpreting everyday communication and actions from the standpoint of an imagined "21 st Century" employer.My mom and other adults are always so concerned that my friends or I are doing things that are wrong because I don't want her meddling, but it's just my private space where I can be a teenager.-Student Survey Respondent IntroductionIn a statement which could very well be referencing inappropriate internet use by youth, rather than masturbation, Foucault states:Wherever there was the chance [pleasures] might appear, devices of surveillance were installed; traps were laid for compelling admissions; inexhaustible and corrective discourses were imposed; parents and teachers were alerted, and left with the suspicion that all children were guilty, and with the fear of being themselves at fault if their suspicions were not sufficiently strong; they were kept in readiness in the face of this recurrent danger; their conduct was prescribed and their pedagogy recodified... The child's "vice" was not so much an enemy as a support... Always relying on this support, power advanced, multiplied its relays and its effects, while its target expanded, subdivided, and branched out, penetrating further into reality at the same pace. In

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Section: Parentsmentioning

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“...when no one is hearing them swear” - Youth Safety and the Pedagogy of Surveillance

Fisk

2014

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“…With few exceptions (e.g. Henderson et al, 2010) research on CST focus on the child, with the parents' voice being relatively neglected (Bond, 2010). This is ironic given that the bulk of the critique of the use of such technologies, and the blame for any child welfare repercussions, is aimed at the purchaser/adopter -parents.…”

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The socio-materiality of parental style

Bettany

Kerrane

2016

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Purpose; This study aims to offer understanding of the parent-child relationship by examining, through a socio-material lens, parental descriptions of how one aspect of the new child surveillance technology market, child GPS trackers (CGT), are rejected or adopted by families, highlighting implications for child welfare, privacy and children's rights policy. Design;The authors gathered netnographic data from a range of online sources (parenting forums, online product reviews, discussion boards) that captured parental views towards the use of CGT, and stories of the technology in use, and theorize the data through application of a novel combination of neutralization and affordance theory. Findings;The research reveals how critics of CGT highlight the negative affordances of such product use (highlighting the negative agency of the technology). Parental adopters of CGT, in turn, attempt to rationalize their use of the technology as a mediator in the parent-child relation through utilization of a range of neutralization mechanisms which re-afford positive product agency. Implications for child welfare and policy are discussed in the light of those findings.Practical and social implications; The paper presents an empirical, qualitative understanding of parents negotiating the emergence of a controversial new child-related technology, CGT, and its impact upon debates in the field of parenting and childhood; develops the theory of parental style towards parental affordances, using a socio-material theoretical lens to augment existing sociological approaches; and contributes to the debates surrounding child welfare, ethics, privacy, and human rights in the context of child surveillance GPS technologies.

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“…As a result, while surveillance is concerned with the state as an external power, self-surveillance is both an internal and external process. Power is mediated by external expectations from the state, and also internally reinforced through comparison between ourselves and the expected 'norm' (Henderson et al, 2010). In this sense, self-surveillance could be conceptualised as a subtle or 'hidden' form of conditionality, causing individuals to adapt their behaviour according to social norms about how benefits claimants should behave.…”

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Social Security Reform and the Surveillance State: Exploring the Operation of ‘Hidden Conditionality’ in the Reform of Disability Benefits Since 2010

Manji¹

2016

Social Policy & Society

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A New State of Surveillance? Applying Michel Foucault to Modern Motherhood

Cited by 61 publications

References 30 publications

“...when no one is hearing them swear” - Youth Safety and the Pedagogy of Surveillance

“...when no one is hearing them swear” - Youth Safety and the Pedagogy of Surveillance

The socio-materiality of parental style

Social Security Reform and the Surveillance State: Exploring the Operation of ‘Hidden Conditionality’ in the Reform of Disability Benefits Since 2010

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