Chapter 11 Practice Quiz

The Surveillance Society
. ________ is credited for developing the concept of the Panopticon.

. The pervasive behaviour of looking at others' profiles, wall posts, and pictures on social network sites, such as Facebook, which is sometimes compared to stalking offline, is called ________.

. There are many ways to look at surveillance. One understanding that is gaining traction views surveillance as unilaterally claiming human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data. What concept describes this type of surveillance?

. Lyon and Zureik (1996) have identified a number of perspectives that influence our understanding of what surveillance is. ________ is NOT one of these perspectives.

. In an analysis of surveillance based on political economic theory, ________.

. The fundamental shift in the functioning of society where instead of behaviour relying on kinship ties, tradition, and informal affiliations, it now relies on rules based on rational choice describes which of the following?

. The analysis of prisons by ________ represents perhaps the most compelling and influential theoretical work on surveillance to date.

. What was the acronym of the US spy program that Edward Snowden uncovered?

. ________ is NOT one of the forms of social control identified by Foucault.

. ________ describes how control over people can be achieved through surveillance.

. Cop Watch, a group that promotes awareness of police brutality against marginalized populations, monitors police activity, and reports police misconduct and unnecessary brutality is an example of:

. ________ is NOT an example of the new surveillance.

. The online search behaviour of users is often collected by search engines, such as Google. The primary purpose of tracking users' online behaviour is ________.

. In a study of Facebook undergraduate users, Young and Quan-Haase (2009) found ________.

. In the textbook, an important distinction was made between ________ privacy threats and future privacy threats.

. A study of undergraduate students found that few participants provided fake or inaccurate information on Facebook. What reason did the study suggest prevented participants from doing so?

. The hacktivist group ________ is known as a decentralized group that does not follow directives but instead operates on ideas.

. Excessive police force against black citizens has led to acts of counter-surveillance and anti-surveillance that appropriate surveillance apparatuses to challenge forms of anti-black surveillance that frame subjects' blackness as inherently suspect. This is termed ________.

. Tufekci has referred to the term ________ to describe the increasing trend of surveillance of and by everyone. Through social media we are watched by our families, friends and acquaintances.

. ________ has been described as a form of counter-surveillance that empowers those subjected to institutional, state, and corporate surveillance practices.

. The term "surveillance" originates in the French language and means "watching over."

. Hierarchical observation refers to the exertion of power and control simply through surveillance.

. The trend towards rationalization leads to less bureaucratic administration, legal formalism, and industrial capitalism.

. Weber saw rationalization as increasing control in social and work life.

. A good definition of deviant behaviour would be "behaviour that falls outside the bounds of the law and requires official sanction."

. The design or shape of architecture cannot determine power relations in a building, but the way architecture is given social meaning can result in new forms of power.

. The iron cage is a social system based on efficiency, rational decision-making, bureaucratic rules, and individual needs and life histories.

. The setup of the show Big Brother does not resemble the architecture of the Panopticon, but this reality TV show is still a good example of traditional surveillance.

. Traditional definitions of surveillance emphasize using technical means to extract or create personal data.

. From a revolutionary perspective on surveillance, it could be argued that Facebook users grant third-party access to their personal information involuntarily by not being fully aware of their ability to change privacy settings or by not fully understanding the settings.

. Even messages that users start to type on social media but never post are tracked.

. According to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the majority of Internet users are not aware that search engines track their online search behaviour.

. Young and Quan-Haase (2009) were surprised to find that students do not seem to be concerned about the potential misuse of their personal data and continue to post a surprising amount of personal information about themselves on social networking sites.

. Inverse surveillance consists of recording, monitoring, analyzing and questioning surveillance technologies and their proponents.

. Interestingly, a study has revealed that many student users provide fake or inaccurate information on Facebook to restrict strangers from accessing their personal information.

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