Facebook-era surveillance makes people voluntarily survey themselves unlike Foucault’s uncertain panopticon

Evidence

I remember someone said during the time Big Brother was still worth thinking about that the difference between Big Brother and Foucault’s panopticon was in Foucault’s panopticon you didn’t know whether you are being watched or not, whereas contestants on Big Brother know for sure they are. There is now this phase with Facebook of the auto-panopticon, as we said earlier, where people make themselves the object of surveillance and survey themselves in this weird way. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2256

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fisher coins/extends ‘auto-panopticon’ as a distinct post-Foucault phase where subjects willingly make themselves the objects of surveillance.
• XREF: This is the exact logic of self-surveillance via social media documented in later platform studies; also connects back to the 1984/We novel in the fiction library (Zamyatin’s state requiring citizens to report themselves). — connects to: Social media surveillance is symmetrical, making watchers desire being watched themselves — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 571; Digital surveillance works because people voluntarily expose themselves — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 32; Facebook builds fabricated social realities that normalize surveillance as interaction. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 348 (+4 more)
• FICTION: The auto-panopticon where citizens voluntarily report their own deviations is pure Zamyatin’s We material.
• BMF: The idea of citizens who voluntarily subject themselves to state surveillance for their own good strongly evokes Zamyatin’s We, where the single state relies on citizens happily surrendering privacy and internalizing surveillance.

Broader Connections

• Ordinary users adopt corporate self-surveillance tactics to manage their social media presence #corroborates (0.90) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 259
• Digital surveillance works because people voluntarily expose themselves #corroborates (0.88) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 32
• Unpredictable surveillance produces self-surveillance and disempowerment in its targets #qualifies (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 482
• Social media surveillance is symmetrical, making watchers desire being watched themselves #complicates (0.78) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 571
• Facebook builds fabricated social realities that normalize surveillance as interaction. #expands (0.76) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 348
• State surveillance can self-censor personal correspondence among citizens #qualifies (0.75) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 586
• Fear of social invisibility drives user acceptance of surveillance features #expands (0.73) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1462