Examples Of Social Paranoia

“A third pole of opposition is between individual/social paranoia – is the paranoia that of an idiosyncratic individual or that of a group, neighbourhood, nation or transnational organisation?”(Harper 2008 p11) Even so why do we feel socially paranoid? Could social paranoia be caused by surveillance? One could argue that we are unaware of our surveillance.
Additionally, there are rhetorical strategies that suggest a social strategy of paranoia. An ex-Prime minister for UK armed forces made allegations of MI5. The conservative MP Steven Hastings called him “positively paranoiac” (Harper 2008 p15) however, Steven Hastings is introducing us with the idea of paranoia making us think about the idea of feeling insecure.
The media in magazines and TV potentially informs an indirect form of surveillance. “A media culture has emerged in which images, sounds, and spectacles help produce the fabric of everyday life” (Kellner 1995 p1) in other words surveillance could be seen to advertise and seduce us as well as manipulate us in a certain way. “The highly seductive foreground of our attention and activity” (Kellner 1995 p3). Above all it is said to be seductive and lures us in
“It is a previously unknown programme run in the United States by the National Security Agency (NSA) to access data held by the world’s major internet companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Skype” (Morris 2013 p1) . Amongst this internet traffic there are many so called IP CCTV cameras the data sent by these. Cameras travel across the internet. Due to the nature of the data collection that PRISM uses the US government this has the potential to access the video recorded by these IP CCTV cameras. In turn this increases the potential for privacy to be invaded. “By system, the IP-based video surveillance market is expected to grow rapidly at a CAGR of 24.2% “(SSI Staff 2014