Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard E. Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt

Social media bring together info on clients, shops mine info on shoppers, net giants create dossiers of who we all know and what we do, and intelligence enterprises gather all this plus billions of communications day-by-day. Exploiting our boundless wish to entry every little thing for all time, electronic know-how is breaking down no matter what barriers nonetheless exist among the nation, the industry, and the personal realm. uncovered deals a robust critique of our new digital transparence, revealing simply how unfree we're changing into and the way little we appear to care.

Bernard Harcourt publications us via our new electronic panorama, person who makes it really easy for others to watch, profile, and form our each wish. we're construction what he calls the expository society—a platform for extraordinary degrees of exhibition, staring at, and impression that's reconfiguring our political family members and reshaping our notions of what it potential to be an individual.

We aren't scandalized by way of this. on the contrary: we crave publicity and knowingly hand over our privateness and anonymity on the way to faucet into social networks and customer convenience—or we provide in ambivalently, regardless of our reservations. yet we now have arrived at a second of reckoning. If we don't desire to be trapped in a metal mesh of instant digits, now we have a accountability to do no matter what we will to withstand. Disobedience to a regime that depends on substantial info mining can take many varieties, from aggressively encrypting own info to leaking executive secrets and techniques, yet all would require conviction and braveness.

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They are also what have made us virtually transparent to surveillance today. They are how come our information can be collected and analyzed so easily. 30 • • • Facebook is keenly aware that its business model depends on users enjoying being on Facebook. It is also acutely aware that people’s emotions are contagious: whether someone likes using Facebook may be related to being surrounded by other people who like using Facebook. It is for that reason, not surprisingly, that Facebook has a “like” button but not a “dislike” button.

Everything today is organized around friending, clicking, retweeting, and reposting. We share photos on Instagram so that others will like them, and constantly check to see how many people have—and we form judgments of ourselves based on how many likes we get. We make Snapchat “stories” and continually check to see who has viewed them—and to figure out how to make them more popular. We tweet to our followers, hoping that they will retweet or “favorite” our post. We write blogs, hoping they will get trackbacks, be linked to, and become embedded.

This is a double movement, a pas de deux: on the one hand, our daily routines gravitate from the analog to the digital, with all of the accompanying data collection and mining by social media, advertisers, commercial interests, and government surveillance; on the other hand, our punishment practices, at least in the West, themselves also eerily gravitate from the analog to the digital, from the brick-and-mortar and iron bars of the prison to electronic monitoring and GPS tracking. The costs of massive overincarceration, especially during recent times of economic and fi nancial crisis, have pushed us, in advanced capitalist liberal democracies, to turn increasingly to supervised parole and probation, to the electronic bracelet and the CCTV, to methods of digital monitoring of supervised correctional populations in the free world.

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