[Air-l] Think Tank: Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms (fwd)
Maximilian Forte
mcforte at kacike.org
Wed Jan 28 19:42:43 PST 2004
>"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
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