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Social Network from the Perspective of Surveillance Theory
Janda, Martin ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Fišer, Josef (referee)
The paper concentrates on the general trend of extending the surveillance as it is nicely captured in the case of online social network Facebook. The text emphasized the omnipresence and hidden techniques used for mining of personal data, as depicted on the phenomenon of consumer surveillance. Data kept in the in databases create a virtual image of an individual that subsequently replaces him in the cyberspace, which leads to discrimination of the individual due to an unequal access to products and information. On introducing the surveillant assemblage the paper shows how the modern surveillance has multiple sources and its object can be anyone who is browsing the internet. Main source for the analysis are the works of Surveillance Studies, most prominently the Canadian sociologist David Lyon. The work centers on defining what part of social sciences field in the age of IT technologies occupies the panopticon - the key concept of surveillance studies - and what new aspects of surveillance are appearing in the society thanks to the development of internet and especially the social networks.
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Surveillance and Personal Data Protection
Kohoutová, Jana ; Slavíček, Daniel (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the surveillance and private data protection. The first part brings into the focus the theoretical definition of surveillance and the areas in which it is applied. Important role in this thesis has also it's historical development. For example there will be introduced the historical resolution according to David Lyon to premodern, modern and postmodern surveillance, Michel Foucault's view on the surveillance of the state over it's citizens or society of control of Gilles Deleuze. The second part of this thesis will move to concepts as personal data and their protection. I will define what privacy and personal data means and what is it's value to each of us. This thesis will continue with current legal aspects not only in the Czech Republic but within whole European union. As the next important topic will follow the new regulation of European Union dealing with personal data, so called GDPR that comes into the force next year and it's possible benefits for contemporary situation. The result of this thesis is to provide the insight into the development of surveillance in the society and define it in the areas where it is implied but primarily find out to what extent is this surveillance entitled and where it's limits are. Another aim of this thesis is also to asses the...
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Genealogical study of the development of the passport and its use on the territory of the Slovak Republic
Lanková, Janka ; Komasová, Sarah (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
Genealogical study of the development of the passport and its use on the territory of the Slovak Republic Author: Bc. Janka Lanková University: Charles University in Prague Thesis Advisor: PhDr. Sarah Komasová Place, year: Prague, 2018 Number of pages: 66 pages Academic Degree: Master degree (Mgr.) Key words: passport, Slovak Republic, development, security, panopticon Abstract The thesis analyzes fundamental functions of passport and its development. Specifically, it elaborates on how passports are used in practice, their symbolism, and mainly what is the link between passport and security. Theory of a significant French philosopher, Michel Foucault, serves as lens the issue is looked through. In other words, the research considers Foucault's theory portrayed in "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" as one of the main ideas that has led to the maintenance of order by the sense of constant surveillance. Therefore, primary objective of this thesis is to investigate how passport as the document has developed in the territory of the current Slovak Republic, which of its qualities have changed over time, and why the passport is highly relevant and significant for society as well as a legal system. Michel Foucault claims human nature is conditioned to a better self-reflection when it is under the...
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Surveillance and Marketing
Ledrová, Šárka ; Slavíček, Daniel (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis looks into the key aspects of surveillance and marketing issues. It describes surveillance as a subject of studies, historical development in studies regarding surveillance and default approaches to the surveillance from the Surveillance Studies branch point of view. Main source of information for the thesis comes from the concept of surveillance from Michael Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon and other experts. Practical part of the thesis aims to present a balanced look on the marketing as a sphere of surveillance, to describe development of surveillance in marketing and to outline eventual risk and consequences of contemporary surveillance in marketing.
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Surveillance and Personal Data Protection
Kohoutová, Jana ; Slavíček, Daniel (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the surveillance and private data protection. The first part brings into the focus the theoretical definition of surveillance and the areas in which it is applied. Important role in this thesis has also it's historical development. For example there will be introduced the historical resolution according to David Lyon to premodern, modern and postmodern surveillance, Michel Foucault's view on the surveillance of the state over it's citizens or society of control of Gilles Deleuze. The second part of this thesis will move to concepts as personal data and their protection. I will define what privacy and personal data means and what is it's value to each of us. This thesis will continue with current legal aspects not only in the Czech Republic but within whole European union. As the next important topic will follow the new regulation of European Union dealing with personal data, so called GDPR that comes into the force next year and it's possible benefits for contemporary situation. The result of this thesis is to provide the insight into the development of surveillance in the society and define it in the areas where it is implied but primarily find out to what extent is this surveillance entitled and where it's limits are. Another aim of this thesis is also to asses the...
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Panoptical tropes and negotiations between art and politics in Charles Johnson's short fiction
Ženíšek, Jakub ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Jařab, Josef (referee) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee)
Doctoral dissertation: Panoptical tropes and negotiations between art and politics in Charles Johnson's short fiction Abstract The dissertation traces the uneasy marriage between ideology and aesthetics in African American literature, and its reflections in Charles Johnson's short fiction. The historical introduction is an attempt to reevaluate the tradition of ideological self-policing in African American literature. Its central thesis resides in the claim that African American literature and its critical reception has still retained some of this ideological template, in a manner and degree that throws it out of sync with the mainstream trajectory of American literature. This lingering anachronism cannot be legitimately attributed to a single causative circumstance, yet one of the more obvious explanations for this residual trend is the living memory of overt discriminatory practices in many parts of the United States, which is why the centrifugal literary discourses of assimilationism and protest fiction are still very vibrant. This simple argument alone provides a sufficient basis for contextualizing and understanding the thesis that ideological writing still inadvertently manages to find its way into African American fictional pursuits. This is also underscored by the observable fact that even the...
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Social Network from the Perspective of Surveillance Theory
Janda, Martin ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Fišer, Josef (referee)
The paper concentrates on the general trend of extending the surveillance as it is nicely captured in the case of online social network Facebook. The text emphasized the omnipresence and hidden techniques used for mining of personal data, as depicted on the phenomenon of consumer surveillance. Data kept in the in databases create a virtual image of an individual that subsequently replaces him in the cyberspace, which leads to discrimination of the individual due to an unequal access to products and information. On introducing the surveillant assemblage the paper shows how the modern surveillance has multiple sources and its object can be anyone who is browsing the internet. Main source for the analysis are the works of Surveillance Studies, most prominently the Canadian sociologist David Lyon. The work centers on defining what part of social sciences field in the age of IT technologies occupies the panopticon - the key concept of surveillance studies - and what new aspects of surveillance are appearing in the society thanks to the development of internet and especially the social networks.
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Electronic surveillance in the area of consumption and media
Špačková, Andrea ; Slavíček, Daniel (advisor) ; Marcelli, Miroslav (referee)
5 Abstract My diploma thesis is focused on electronic surveillance in the area of consumption, marketing and media. Electronic surveillance is a form of collecting and evaluating data, which were created as a secondary product of electronic devices. The use of new technologies and internet allows spying their users and saving the received data to both state and commercial databases. Subsequent data use is common in the business or crime prevention area. This practice brings the risk of privacy disruption, influencing and directing people. The diploma thesis consists of three main chapters. The first chapter follows up the history of surveillance and its development. The second part is focused on formation of the electronic surveillance and describes different areas of surveillance. The third chapter relates to one concrete area - consumption and marketing. This chapter includes also practical examples. Key words Surveillance, interactivity, customization, reality show, Panopticon, media
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