Chiara Fonio

Titoli dell'autore

Oltre il Panopticon? Foucault e la videosorveglianza digital

Anno: 2006

Foucault’s figure of the Panopticon has exercised a considerable influence over the surveillance studies in the past decades. The article explores, both theoretically and empirically, the applicability of the Foucault’s Panopticon to the practices of public video surveillance. In particular, the paper aims to understand if the metaphor of the Panopticon is still useful to explain contemporary surveillance.

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I movimenti collettivi nell’epoca della globalizzazione. I no global in Italia digital

di Chiara Fonio

Anno: 2004

The article explores the collective movement known as «no global» by analysing the most common theories related to collective behaviour and social movements in the sociological tradition and adopting a historical prospective that sets the phenomenon within the period from 1968 to the present. The essay specifically focuses on «no global» in Italy and emphasizes the importance of understanding their structure in the virtual world on the Internet. In fact, the massive use of the Internet profoundly and uniquely characterizes these groups by demonstrating a complexity that goes beyond the simplistic view given by the media. Consequently, the challenge of the social movements studies seems to be the definition of new methodological instruments that are necessary to avoid misinterpretations of these new forms of collectivities.

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