The New Panopticon: Semiotics of Social Media

The New Panopticon functions severally to allow the viewing of, the desemination of information about, and to define the meaning of YOU.

As Foucault and the famous photographer Diane Arbus (and to some extent her progenitor Weegee) noted, there is inevitably a gap or disconnect between what we believe we show the world, and what others believe they see when they look at us in all the ways we now have to fix our gaze upon the world.

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