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COVID-19—Extending Surveillance and the Panopticon.
- Source :
- Journal of Bioethical Inquiry; 2020, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p809-814, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Surveillance is a core function of all public health systems. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have deployed traditional public health surveillance responses, such as contact tracing and quarantine, and extended these responses with the use of varied technologies, such as the use of smartphone location data, data networks, ankle bracelets, drones, and big data analysis. Applying Foucault's (1979) notion of the panopticon, with its twin focus on surveillance and self-regulation, as the preeminent form of social control in modern societies, we examine the increasing levels of surveillance enacted during this pandemic and how people have participated in, and extended, this surveillance, self-regulation, and social control through the use of digital media. Consideration is given to how such surveillance may serve public health needs and/or political interests and whether the rapid deployment of these extensive surveillance mechanisms risks normalizing these measures so that they become more acceptable and then entrenched post-COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MASS media
PUBLIC health
PUBLIC health surveillance
COVID-19 pandemic
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11767529
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147605488
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10036-5