Computational surveillance is newly ubiquitous though not newly invented
Evidence
While computational forms of surveillance and manipulation of human behavior are certainly not new phenomena, the architecture for carrying out these activities has never been so widespread, powerful, and ingrained in daily life, mediating nearly all of our activities through phones, appliances, shopping platforms, communication systems, search engines, and other everyday digital technologies. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 516
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Surveillance itself is ancient; data appropriation of life is the novelty — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 151; Surveillance of things historically preceded and enabled surveillance of individuals — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 223; Only 2010s technologies made surveillance effectively autonomous — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 513 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Only 2010s technologies made surveillance effectively autonomous
#qualifies(0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 513 - Surveillance of things historically preceded and enabled surveillance of individuals
#expands(0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 223 - The American War on Terror normalized pervasive state surveillance well beyond Orwell’s imaginings
#expands(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 261