Week 3, Blog 2, Chapter 6

In chapter six, on page 178, the authors talk about panopticon. I learned about this in my communication 101 class. It’s about surveillance in prison systems. Bentham’s prison was designed to show that power exists when you feel you are being monitored. Foucault looks at panopticon as a metaphor. I believe we are being watched many times a day, more than we think we are. It’s a little scary to think that we could be driving and walking doing our everyday daily things and being watched without knowing it.