[Air-l] Think Tank: Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms (fwd)

[Maximilian Forte]

>"The concern I have is that self-expression gets confused with the
inducement to assist in marketing to yourself,"

One way of looking at some youths' fascination with glamourized surveillance
might be to see it as a desire to counteract the anonymity and atomization
of urban modernity--possibly a return to the surveillance systems that come
with close social integration in village settings. Privacy implies
distance...too much of it means "you're on your own" and for some that is a
depressing type of existence.

Thanks for forwarding the article.

Max.

Dr Maximilian C. Forte
Anthropology & Sociology
University College of Cape Breton