Web Activities
Click on the following links before completing web activities. Please note these will open in a new window.
- Discipline and Punish, Panopticism
- A link to chapter 3 in Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
- Additional exercises:
- Review the article . . . What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?
- Review the Modules on Foucault website . . . which discusses the panoptic paradigm.
- Crime Control or Crime Culture TV?
- This article analyzes discussions of closed circuit TV and challenges to civil liberties.
- Additional exercises:
- Review the article . . . The ‘Surveillance Society’ by David Murakami Wood.
- Browse the “You Are Being Watched” website.
- Reality TV: The Big Brother Phenomenon
- This article analyzes the controversies commonly portrayed and put on display on reality TV.
- Additional activities:
- Read the Rise of the Big Brother Phenomenon article.
- Read the Zoo Effect article.