Confinement, Education and the Control Society

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ulises Mejias[Edit][Delete]: Confinement, Education and the Control Society, Ideant [Edit][Delete] October 5, 2006
I didn't read either Ulises or Foucault just before my September trip - but I may as well have. "This is the paradox of social media that has been bothering me lately: an 'empowering' media that provides increased opportunities for communication, education and online participation, but which at the same time further isolates individuals and aggregates them into masses - more prone to control, and by extension more prone to discipline. More...