Problems of surveillance in the realm of 21st century’s information technologies

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Jeremy Bentham’s panoptic prison design and its underlying implications, with Michel Foucault’s interpretation, turned into a new concept that refers to controlling power. Now, the panopticon is used as a synonym of surveillance. The analogy of the panopticon is often used to imply the problems of surveillance and its ethical implications in social media. This thesis aims to research how the panoptic prison has changed and transformed 21st century information technologies by analyzing people’s behaviors and attitudes in social media channels and argues that computer ethics is an important subject matter to understand the unforeseen impact of Information Technologies on individuals and society.

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Information technology, Information technology

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S. İneler, “Problems of surveillance in the realm of 21st century’s information technologies,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2018.