• How would you outline “threat”? What kinds of issues does the idea of “threat” make you consider?
• Associated to emotions of safety/insecurity
• Hazard is ever-present
• Levels of threat. Risk vs. likelihood
• Distinctive politics/States of Exception
• From the readings, what kinds of particular safety practices can we affiliate with the idea of “threat”?
• Digicam surveillance
• Wire tapping
• Web surveillance
• Meta-data mining
• Pre-emptive arrests
• Pre-emptive/extra-judicial killing
“Management Narrative of the Web”
• “The Management Narrative of the Web” (Altheide)
• Web customers have an consciousness and an expectation that data is each monitored and utilized by varied audiences for varied functions.
• i.e. We count on each to observe and be watched. We (usually) consent to this.
• Governmentality
“Paradox of web safety”
• What’s “the paradox of web safety”? (Altheide)
• “… web safety requires violation [of privacy] and surveillance…“
• Residents count on privateness however, paradoxically, are keen to offer over private information in an effort to shield that privateness
• There’s a large quantity of private and biometric data that’s now accessible to those that want to use it. Each lawfully and unlawfully.
• Mediated interplay; Faux information; Election tampering; “Digital Booty” and disinformation; Company and authorities hacking and many others.
• “The logic of pre-emption … within the safety methods of the post-9/11 period is… a political rationality that permits motion to be taken within the face of obvious radical uncertainty… by way of anticipatory interventions within the current” (Stockdale 2013)
– Uncertainty and “creativeness” is the idea of motion
– Doable risk fairly than possible risk
– Requires and normalizes “distinctive politics” and thus, creates a everlasting “state of exception”
– Sarcastically, can “find yourself producing, reproducing, and regenerating the very factor it seeks to disarm” (insecurity and uncertainty on the degree of life and demise
