1984 presentation on the topic of "The Role of Surveillance in Today's Society" by Chris Miranda, Mike D'Aprix, Suin Lee, and Ellen Kaveevittayakun

1. 1984 SURVEILLANCE,
HOW ABOUT REAL WORLD?

2. Four Focus Areas
• Censorship
• Self-Surveillance
• Thought Police
• Elctronic Surveillance

3. Censorship

4. Censorship In 1984
Movie 1984 directed by Michael Anderson in 1956

5. How?
INTERNET –
1. Under the Control of Government and Huge
Corporations
2. A Lot of Contents in One Place
3. Easy and Fast to Find a Lot of Contents
4. Easy and Fast to Block the Contents

6. Internet Censorship Map
www.rsf.org – Reporters Without Border

7. Internet Censorship
• Internet Monitoring System
• Specific Corporations for Monitoring and
Analyzing Internet Contents
• Blog Censorship
Article (07.07.10) from Korean newspaper, Segye Newspaper

8. Self-Surveillance

9. Self-Surveillance
• de·nounce
• 1. to condemn or censure openly or publicly: to d
enounce a politician as morally corrupt.
• 2. to make a formal accusation against, as to th
e police or in acourt.
• Dictionary.com

10. Self-Surveillance
• Denunciation is a practice commonly used in
authoritarian regimes.
• By making citizens accountable for each other’s a
ctions they will be more likely to turn each other
in.
• Creates fear, which in turn leads to competition.
• ‘Betray them before they can betray me’.

11. Self-Surveillance
• North Korea’s “Household Watch/Five-Family
System”
• “In every apartment building, neighborhood, and
town, households are grouped together. A local
party official appoints a resident… to watch over her
neighbors and report any suspicious behavior.”
• If one family leaves the country the other families
are held accountable and often punished in the
other family’s stead.
• Kondgan Oh. “North Korea: The Nadir of Freedom” (2007) Foreign Policy Research Instit
ute.

12. Self-Surveillance
“You think there’s no other way of saving
yourself… You want it to happen to the other
person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer.
All you care about is yourself.”
• Orwell, George. 1984. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 1950. Print.

13. Thought Police

14. Thought Police in 1984
The presence of Thought Police is very prominent
throughout 1984. Life is dictated by the existence of
Thought Police and the possibility of someone always
listening prepared to strike.
A family that is close to Winston,
the main character, finds the
parent’s demise at hands of their
own children who are Thought
Police.
Another example is the
discovery of Winston and Julia’s
affair and their role in the
Rebellion.

15. Thought Police in Modern Times
• The existence of Thought Police in modern times can be seen in the
recent and existing Totalitarian or Authoritarian governments.
• Previously in the USSR Thought Police were utilized to weed out
those who did not follow the decreed Stalinism.
• The use of Thought Police was prominent in Nazis Germany to find
men and women hiding those of the Jewish faith.

16. Thought Police in the Future
• 8:36
• The world of Equilibrium depicts a future world
where emotions are controlled and Thought
Police exist to prevent the outbreak of emotions.