Non-Disciplinary Power and the Network Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20500491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lain Munro (University of St Andrews, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 679-695 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135050840074010 |
| OpenAlex | W2090774511 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article addresses Foucault's concept of disciplinary power and asks whether it is an adequate concept for describing the power relations emerging as part of recent developments in information technology. In fact, this article will show that some non-disciplinary forms of power are transforming many areas of social life, allowing for the development of new information-based institutions, different sites of resistance to power, and increasing social divisions based around the access to information. Drawing on Foucault's concept of a `diagram of power', this article will propose a diagram based on the network which better describes the power relations at work in modern information technology than do the concepts of discipline or the sovereign
Discipline · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · E-Government and Public Services · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Social Media and Politics
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Heterotopias of control
Multiplicity, discretion, and power
Regulating Humanitarian Governance
Flying the black flag
Glimpses through the Gates
Michel Foucault in the Social Study of ICTs
Government Surveillance and Political Participation on the Internet
Organizational resistance as a vector of deterritorialization
‘We’re not run on Numbers, We’re People, We’re Emotional People’
Governing workplace safety through apparatuses
‘Doggy-biopolitics’
Foucault's dispositive
The infrastructure of telecare
You Can Checkout Anytime, but You Can Never Leave
Intellectual Technologies in the Fashioning of Learning Societies
The Contrasting Social Logics of Socialit and Survival
Power and Contingency in Planning
The generalized sousveillance society
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |