1. Today’s Line Up
1. Throat Clearing!
2. Systems & Patterns
3. Blueprints &
Psychology
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2. 1. Would You Rather . . .
a. be a professional athlete or a reality
show celebrity? Why?
b. be able to fly or read minds? Why?
2. Confess: How well are you keeping up
with classes?
3. Retrieval Practice: List synonyms &
words associated with “surveillance.”
W/O looking at your notes!
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3. To monitor To police Surveil
To observe To watch To observe
To examine To investigate To supervise
Surveillance: Synonyms & Associated Words
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5. Panoptic Surveillance System 5
Penitentiary
Centrally placed watch tower
Guards can see into private cells
Prisoners cannot see guards
Prisoners aware of being monitored.
Prisoners cannot see nor interact with each other
Isolation stops prisoners from influencing each other.
6. Primer for “Watching You Watching Me: Boundary Control and Capturing
Attention in the Context of Ubiquitous Technology Use” by Professor
Christine Beckman, Smith Business College, University of Maryland 6
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Penitentiary HospitalWard
Centrally placed watch tower Centrally placed nurses station
Guards can see into private cells Nurses can see into private rooms
Inmates cannot see guards Patients cannot see nurses
Inmates aware of being monitored. Patient aware of being monitored
Inmates prevented from seeing and
interacting with each other
Patients prevented from seeing and
interacting with each other
Isolation stops inmates from influencing
each other.
Isolation stops patients from infecting each
other.
Panoptic Architecture
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System: Prison Hospital Ward Education/Class Factory
Watcher: Guard Nurse/Doctor Teacher Manager
Watched: Inmates Patient Students Workers
Setting: Jail/Prison Hospital Classroom Factory Floor
“Atomized”
Space:
Cell Ward Desk Work Station
Institution’s
Purpose
Maintain, Order/prevent
spread of crime for
greater safety
Heal, Prevent
transmission of disease
for health purposes
Teach, socialize and
educate next generation
to keep society running
Effective time on task for
greater production for
profit
Why Isolate
“watched”?
Prevent inmates from
rioting, negatively
influencing each other.
Prevent patients from
infecting each other.
Prevent students from
distracting from teachers’
control, from being unruly.
Prevent unruly behavior
that hinders productivity
and managers’ authority.
Analogous (Similar) Patterns & Roles Across Social Systems
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Panoptic Structure? Children’s Games?
Centrally placed “Watcher” Presence of a “watcher”?
Privatized experience
Those being watched experience
monitored privately, by themselves.
“Watcher” is secret/hidden “Watcher” is hidden? Secretive?
Awareness of constant
monitoring
Players aware of constant monitoring?
Purpose? Penalty?
13. 1 The most compelling or interesting idea we talked about today
was . . . because . . .
2 Today’s convo reminded be of . . . (Movie? Song, Personal
experience? Other subject? Other class?) because . . .
3 A lingering question I have about our topic so far is . . .
Final Reflections: Check In so we can all . . . check out!
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