Panopticism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Panopticism is a noun meaning The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness.
Meaning
The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness.
Example Sentences
I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario.
The goal of police panopticism is to minimize the severe costs of managing the police by leveraging data-driven surveillance from multiple institutional points and actors.
Today's panopticism (in the West, at least) hasn't had anything like this effect, as Angwin notes, because it can be quite crude in displaying its own invasive footprints: You shop for cameras online, and then find yourself haunted for weeks by camera ads each time you visit a new website.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include panopticon, panoramic, panpsychism, pano, pantography, panarchy.
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