Panoptic Media Culture

Andy Warhol filmed people doing normal, mundane stuff. It's like watching a reality-show, like Big Brother, where the people in the show are taped at every moment. It marked a new beginning in which media attention became the focus of social identification, the new mirror in which the individual looks back on. It becomes like an eye of god, that media can see everything - panoptic. People want to see real live stuff and media can do that. Also people want to show their daily life. It's like a window that many people show their thought, daily life, feeling, and also it's a window that so many people watching all these people behaviors. It likes the Facebook, people post what they are thinking, what their feeling about something is, what they have done, and all the personal thoughts, personal feelings are on Facebook wall. It updates frequently, so when people once get on Facebook, he/she can see all his/her friends thought, feeling, mood, and behavior. I can see all of them clearly, I know their feeling, their thought, their activities without letting them know that I know, they show them in the public. But at the same time, I am also the person who is being watch as well. Like everyone on Facebook knows what I am thinking once I post on there. Now social network is now like a Panopticon, but the difference is people in somewhere that can be in the middle of Panopticon or around the Panopticon. On Facebook, I choose what I wanna show and what I don’t wanna show. It looks like daily real life on Facebook, but actually it’s not. Because people already being self-medialized, which means what shows on there is not real anymore. It’s like a stage that people can choose what they wanna show and what they don’t wanna show. Lifes are all about the media now, everyone lives for it, post on there. People hope to do something awesome to post online. And also we all being watched and watch people through this media.