PRIVACY, PRURIENCE AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES: GLOBALISATION OF VOYEURISM
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Author(s)INDHU RAJAGOPAL
PublisherIDEAINDIA.COM
ISBN / ASINB005MYKJ1O
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PRIVACY, PRURIENCE AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES: GLOBALISATION OF VOYEURISM
Professor Indu Rajagopal and Nis Bojin
eBook published by IDEAINDIA.COM
Copyright Indhu Rajagopal 2007
It is paradoxical that innovations related to the Internet seem to create dilemmas for Web-surfers. The Internet facilitates a globalized world where no hard-world legal restrictions apply. In particular, the explosion of video surveillance and micro-camera technology has had a profound impact upon the generally accepted notions of personal privacy. As video surveillance equipment has become smaller, more portable, more easily concealed, and more accessible to the general public, its pervasive application conduces to today’s cultural fascination with voyeurism. Therefore, protecting the privacy rights of individuals requires a re-conceptualization of the public and the private space, as well as an abandonment of the prevailing, albeit flawed, understanding of human privacy. The need to re-conceptualize human privacy in the context of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially those related to the Web, is the basis for attempts in many jurisdictions to criminalize video voyeurism. Only when new laws recognize the right to protect the human body from unreasonable and obscene intrusion through the use of Web technology, regardless of location, forum and space, will individual privacy be adequately safeguarded from the wrath of such voyeurism. The key issue here is voyeurism, and the Internet has the potential for promoting it. The issues we will explore in this paper are the roots, conditions, characteristics and facilitators of voyeurism and surveillance that apply to the private space of women. While writing this paper, it became obvious that, for clarity and poignancy, it would be useful to offer the discussion in two parts.
In Part I of this eBook, The Architecture of the Internet and the Digital Interlock of Surveillance and Voyeurism, we identify the theoretical issues and construct an analytical framework which is empirically examined in Part II, using illustrative online materials.
In Part II of this eBook, Spaces and Artifacts of Voyeurism on the Internet and the Loss of Innocence, we will examine the spaces and artifacts of Voyeurism on the Internet while extending the argument that the architecture of the Internet has a significant impact on exacerbating the globalization of voyeurism and loss of innocence.
Professor Indu Rajagopal – Professor, Division of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Canada – Interests: the development of urban economies; Canada the Third World; caste and political development in India; Indian immigrants in Canada.
Professor Indu Rajagopal and Nis Bojin
eBook published by IDEAINDIA.COM
Copyright Indhu Rajagopal 2007
It is paradoxical that innovations related to the Internet seem to create dilemmas for Web-surfers. The Internet facilitates a globalized world where no hard-world legal restrictions apply. In particular, the explosion of video surveillance and micro-camera technology has had a profound impact upon the generally accepted notions of personal privacy. As video surveillance equipment has become smaller, more portable, more easily concealed, and more accessible to the general public, its pervasive application conduces to today’s cultural fascination with voyeurism. Therefore, protecting the privacy rights of individuals requires a re-conceptualization of the public and the private space, as well as an abandonment of the prevailing, albeit flawed, understanding of human privacy. The need to re-conceptualize human privacy in the context of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially those related to the Web, is the basis for attempts in many jurisdictions to criminalize video voyeurism. Only when new laws recognize the right to protect the human body from unreasonable and obscene intrusion through the use of Web technology, regardless of location, forum and space, will individual privacy be adequately safeguarded from the wrath of such voyeurism. The key issue here is voyeurism, and the Internet has the potential for promoting it. The issues we will explore in this paper are the roots, conditions, characteristics and facilitators of voyeurism and surveillance that apply to the private space of women. While writing this paper, it became obvious that, for clarity and poignancy, it would be useful to offer the discussion in two parts.
In Part I of this eBook, The Architecture of the Internet and the Digital Interlock of Surveillance and Voyeurism, we identify the theoretical issues and construct an analytical framework which is empirically examined in Part II, using illustrative online materials.
In Part II of this eBook, Spaces and Artifacts of Voyeurism on the Internet and the Loss of Innocence, we will examine the spaces and artifacts of Voyeurism on the Internet while extending the argument that the architecture of the Internet has a significant impact on exacerbating the globalization of voyeurism and loss of innocence.
Professor Indu Rajagopal – Professor, Division of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Canada – Interests: the development of urban economies; Canada the Third World; caste and political development in India; Indian immigrants in Canada.
