Surveillance, Gender, and the Virtual Body in the Information Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12729385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Conrad (0000-0001-9117-3334, University of Kansas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 380-387 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Surveillance & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-7487 • E-ISSN: 1477-7487 |
| Publisher | Surveillance Studies Network (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.24908/ss.v6i4.3269 |
| OpenAlex | W2108691367 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 13 |
In our contemporary 'information age', information and the body stand in a new, peculiar, and ambiguous relationship to one another. Information is plumbed from the body but treated as separate from it, facilitating, as Irma van der Ploeg has suggested, the creation of a separate virtual 'body-as-information' that has affected the very ontology of the body. This 'informatization of the body' has been both spurred and enabled by surveillance techniques that create, depend upon, and manipulate virtual bodies for a variety of predictive purposes, including social control and marketing. While, as some feminist critics have suggested, there appears to be potential for information technologies to liberate us from oppressive ideological models, surveillance techniques, themselves so intimately tied to information systems, put normative pressure on non-normative bodies and practices, such as those of queer and genderqueer subjects. Ultimately, predictive surveillance is based in an innately conservative epistemology, and the intertwining of information systems with surveillance undermines any liberatory effect of the former
Epistemology · Ideology · Informatization · Normative · Ontology · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Artificial Intelligence
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Under Her Eye
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Proud2Bme
Over-looked Spaces
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Histoire de la sexualité, Tome I
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The digital persona and its application to data surveillance
Bodies that matter
In a Queer Time and Place
Sex, Politics and Society
The Culture of Surveillance
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |