标题：Protestos na era da informação: panóptico, visibilidade sinóptica e outras formas de ver e ser visto | Protests in the information age: panopticon, synopticon, and other ways of seeing and being seen
其他标题：Protests in the information age: panopticon, synopticon, and other
ways of seeing and being seen
出版社：Laboratório Interdisciplinar em Inofrmação e Conhecimento (LIINC)
其他摘要：Information and communication
technologies have fostered the existence
of large public demonstrations in the
current techno-scientific and
informational period, while at the same
time they have often served to monitor
activists’ activities and to curtail the
actions of certain citizens. Such scenario
of intensive surveillance has been
represented by metaphors like big
brother and the panopticon. However,
these metaphors on their own cannot
explain the complexities of the current
surveillance society. While the
panopticon model represents the
surveillance of “the many” by “one”,
today there are many situations where
“the many” watch “one”, or even, “the
many” watch “the many”. The Orwellian
model is incomplete as it centres the
surveillance focus in the hands of the
state, whereas other actors like
companies and individuals play crucial
roles in the current surveillance realm.
Recent protests in Brazil show several
examples in which the surveillance
promoted by hegemonic agents is being
countered not only by countersurveillance
practices but also by a
growing synoptic visibility.
其他关键词：Protests; Surveillance;
Panopticon; Synopticon; TechnoScientific
and Informational Period.
