Kiyoshi Murata    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Date	2013/03/08
Presentation Theme	The Coming Schizophrenic Society: A Possible Identity Crisis in the Participatory Surveillance Environment (Keynote Address)
Conference	ICT-ethics: Sweden and Japan
Promoters	Linköping University
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (Keynote)
Contribution Type	Individual
Invited	Invited
Details	Whereas the benefit and harm of a widespread deployment of CCTV cameras is controversial among scholars, ordinary people seem to have accepted CCTV systems as an electronic moral gaze. A massive amount of personal information has already been collected and stored in private and public databases, and dataveillance systems using ubiquitous devices automatically collect, store, process, use and share personal information in nearly real-time fashion. In addition, social media enhance Internet users' communication with an unspecified number of people and their revelation of personal information not only of themselves but of others. Consequently, hardly anyone can control the accumulation of, access to and use of their personal information. In such a Internet environment, people's identification of the self, which Kierkegaard characterised as "the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation", may be on the verge of a crisis as typically presented in patients with schizophrenia. This may imply an identity crisis. Individuals may experience that their independence is taken over by others - a symptom unique to schizophrenia. This study deals with pathologies similar to schizophrenia, which many people may undergo due to the widespread use of participatory surveillance systems such as CCTV systems, dataveillance systems and social media, based on observations of individual and organisational behaviour in the current Internet society and the results of studies on phenomenological/anthropologic psychopathology.