A Reprieve from the Panopticon: Spaces without Introspection.
This paper will investigate the existence of spaces on the internet which allow their users to utilize "counter-technologies" such as TOR, a proxy service, in order to break the dyad of vision in the social panopticon and release themselves, if briefly and incompletely, from the gaze of society. If...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 117 - 124 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2010
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