five page essay

Readings: Peter Singer “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets” Chuck Klosterman “Electric Funeral” Peter Singer in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets” explores some cultural and political implications of a society when it becomes more open through surveillance, sousveillance, the free flow of information. Assange’s WikiLeaks exposed some secret documents that threaten people in power who were hiding that information. The counterargument here is that those leaked documents could have put a lot of people at rick. Chuck Klosterman researched into the connection of technology and villainy in his essay “Electric Funeral” where he criticizes technologically smart people who are promoting cultural changes in the society. Those changes look pervasive and inescapable. Modern society has no choice to head forward to an uncertain future. The example of that inescapability is WikiLeaks that made private information public. Please discuss the following prompt in a full five paragraph essay: How do virtual surveillance and technology change the traditional notion of “Panopticon” and necessitate social and cultural change? Rough draft should be posted to Canvas on a due date. The final draft should be posted to Canvas and printed out as a hard copy for grading.