Open AccessSurveillance in the liquid modern times
Author(s) -
Sabina Baraniewicz-Kotasińska,
Sławomir Czapnik
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
studia krytyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2450-9078
DOI - 10.25167/sk.1105
Subject(s) - cyberspace , modernity , context (archaeology) , the internet , social media , internet privacy , public relations , sociology , control (management) , business , advertising , political science , computer science , world wide web , history , artificial intelligence , law , archaeology
Surveillance, nowadays especially provided by information and communication technology, is at the core of social control that has been largely commoditised and privatized.Consumer culture gives hope for freedom lives, challenging the social hierarchies that dominated the earlier – in Bauman’s vocabulary, “solid” – phase of modernity. The aim of this paper is to present two of many tools, which are used by biggest IT companies to keep under surveillance the individuals, societies and nations in the Liquid Modern Times. There has been the socio-cultural context of Internet’s development analyzed to fnd the premises that led to a transformation of cyberspace from a freedom to a surveillance place, and conducted a case study of Facebook’s facial recognition technology and Google Street View practices. Non-reactive research methods have been used in the paper.