The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault's ‘Panopticon’ Revisited

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 215-234

  Mathiesen, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Foucault; mass media; Panopticon; surveillance; Synopticon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039364913     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480697001002003     Document Type: Article

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