Kiyoshi Murata    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2013/12
Type	Book Chapter Paper
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Invitation	Invited paper
Title	The Schizophrenic Society: The Potential Risk of Individual Identity Crisis in the Participatory Surveillance Environment
Contribution Type	Co-authored (first author)
Journal	Palm, E. (Ed.), ICT-Ethics: Sweden and Japan (Studies in Applied Ethics 15)
Journal Type	Another Country
Publisher	The Centre for Applied Ethics, Linköping University
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.10-23
Author and coauthor	Kiyoshi Murata and Yohko Orito
Details	Whereas the benefit and harm of a widespread deployment of CCTV cameras is controversial amongst 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 an 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 basic disturbance of 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 surveillance, privacy and phenomenological psychopathology.
ISBN	978-91-7519-431-8