Liquid Surveillance

Liquid modernity plays off of late modernity/postmodernity/liquid modernity. Modernity has liquified, and in this space, social forms can't hold their shape (3) and power and politics have split apart (5). Power is in global space, but politics are still local. Surveillance moves away from a top-down model of watching society. The panopticon view of a community where the prisoners are regulated by the guards is outdated. Due to the global connections of the world, decisions are made in more fluid ways across national boundaries, and societal controls are also fragmented. Watching comes at all levels to include peer-to-peer (coveillance) and bottom up (sousveillance).

References:

Bauman, Zygmunt, and David Lyon. Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation. Cambridge: Polity, 2013. Print.

Also see complexity, globalism