Resumo

ESTEVAO, Tiago Vaz. The New Paradigm of Surveillance in Contemporary Society - "Who Watches the Watchers". OBS* [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.2, pp.155-169. ISSN 1646-5954.

Surveillance is today a global phenomenon, resulting from an increasingly global society. Widespread phenomenon worldwide is cause and basis of academic study with a view to understanding its applicability in contemporary societies. This paper has as main objective to present and discuss the existing theories of surveillance in Social Sciences, analyze the New Paradigm of Surveillance and its dissemination in the Network Society. In order to contextualize the phenomenon of surveillance are analyzed the concepts of "Power", "Moral Panic" and "Risk Society".

Palavras-chave : Surveillance; Network Society; Web 2.0; Panopticon; Privacy; Risk Society.

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