Re: [Air-l] Think Tank: Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms (fwd)

"The concern I have is that self-expression gets confused with the inducement to assist in marketing to yourself,"

One way of looking at some youths' fascination with glamourized surveillance might be to see it as a desire to counteract the anonymity and atomization of urban modernity--possibly a return to the surveillance systems that come with close social integration in village settings. Privacy implies distance...too much of it means "you're on your own" and for some that is a depressing type of existence. Thanks for forwarding the article. Max. Dr Maximilian C. Forte Anthropology & Sociology University College of Cape Breton