A Film Analysis On The Fact Of “Privacy” Changing From Panopticon Surveillance To Digitalized Surveillance: The Circle Example

Abstract

In the light of technological developments, social media and networks are becoming indispensable for people's lives. With these new communication possibilities, the direction of communication between people is changing. These developments, which affect daily life, transform people's relationships, which should be safe and hidden, into a platform that exposes themselves and has open relationships. For this reason, the phenomenon of privacy is changing in social media and in the digitalizing age. In this context, in this study, the shift of the spying and privacy areas from the surveilled society to the public and the change in the perception of privacy are discussed through panopticon and digital surveillance. In the analysis part of the study, The Circle movie, which deals with the effects of the digitalized world on the surveillance society, is examined with the method of critical discourse analysis.