In 3 sentences: The document discusses how digital technologies can enable addiction and surveillance, extracting human behaviors from physical contexts into discrete data flows. It notes how physicians may feel uncomfortable enabling coercive monitoring like ankle bracelets but prioritize patients' long-term health. Finally, it suggests that while media can surveil, it also represents a contested space that may allow for oppositional voices and contradictions to dominant narratives.

1. “Disruptive Technology”:
Addiction and Surveillance in
the Digital World
Rebecca Tiger
Middlebury College
@rtigernyc #DigitalSociology

3. Surveillant Assemblage
“abstract[s] human bodies from their territorial settings and
separate[s] them into discrete flows”
-Haggerty & Ericson, 2000

12. “As a physician, I remain uncomfortable aiding and abetting coercive measures
like SCRAM. But this concern is overshadowed by a far greater one surrounding
[John’s] long term health”

14. Possibility of Resistance?
“Media represent a contested space, offering some potential openings
for oppositional voices…contradictions in dominant discourse. ”
-Aaron Doyle, 2011