期刊名称：Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: An Open Access Journal
电子版ISSN：2164-2850
出版年度：2015
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：128-141
DOI：10.1080/21642850.2015.1049539
出版社：Taylor and Francis Ltd
摘要：This paper examines how Foucault's [(1979). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. New York, NY: Vintage Books] concept of the panopticon coexists in a dyadic relationship of social control with the system of the contemporary mass media – the “synopticon” [Mathiesen, T. (1997). The viewer society: Michel Foucault's “panopticon” revisited. Theoretical Criminology, 1(2), 215–234], and the relevance and significance of this dyad of social control to public health. We consider its application in the examination of several public health issues, including motherhood and gambling, and we extend Mathiesen's work to include consideration of newer interactive forms of mass media and social media and demonstrate how these contribute to this social control, again examining this in the context of public health issues and campaigns, such as alcohol and smoking, as well as noting that newer media formats may present opportunities for resistance. We explain how this theoretical concept might be used more generally in consideration of public health research and interventions.
关键词：communications media ; public health ; social control ; panopticon ; synopticon
