Slides of a lecture in a series based on my books "Media Life" (Polity Press 2012) and "Leven in media" (AUP 2018), reviewing how surveillance works, why we accept public life, and what the consequences may be.

1. Living Information
Media & Information
Public Life
#UvA_LI
#woinactie

5. surveillance by…
the state
industries
institutions
each other
ourselves
machines

6. surveillance by…
the state
industries
institutions
each other
ourselves
machines

8. surveillance by…
the state
industries
institutions
each other
ourselves
machines

18. surveillance by…
the state
industries
institutions
each other
ourselves
machines

26. “The LANrev software program took screen shots and
webcam photos every 15 seconds when activated. The
district thereby captured over 400 screen shots and
webcam images of Harriton High School sophomore
Blake Robbins, according to court filings this week in
his lawsuit.”
Friday, April 16, 2010

36. surveillance by…
the state
industries
institutions
each other
ourselves
machines

45. surveillance by…
the state
industries
institutions
each other
ourselves
machines

56. surveillance by…
the state
industries
institutions
each other
ourselves
machines

58. “It used to take effort to be public.
Today, it takes effort to be private.”
danah boyd – 25 January 2010

59. three types of surveillance society:
PANOPTIC, SYNOPTIC, OMNOPTIC

60. panoptic:
few > many
synoptic:
many > few
omnoptic:
many > many

61. you live in public

63. The Panopticon (1785)

65. Foucault:
control
Deleuze:
discipline
Mattelart:
suspicion

66. why live in public?

67. surveillance has rewards

69. attention is addictive

71. seeing and being seen

74. social bonding and grooming

76. big data & social physics

78. why live in public?

79. surveillance has rewards

80. attention is addictive

81. seeing and being seen

82. social bonding and grooming

83. big data & social physics