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  • 5 - Surveillance and Human Flourishing

  • from Part I - Conceptualizing the Digital Human
  • Edited by Beate Roessler, University of Amsterdam, Valerie Steeves, University of Ottawa
  • Book:
    Being Human in the Digital World
    Published online:
    11 November 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025, pp 63-76
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    Lyon uses the COVID epidemic to think about the instrumentalizing role of surveillance capitalism in digital society. He argues that the tech solutionism proffered by tech companies during the pandemic too often implied that democratic practices and social justice are at least temporarily dispensable for some greater good, with disastrous consequences for human flourishing. As a counterpoint, Lyon uses the notion of an ethics of care as a way to refocus on the importance of articulating the conditions that will enable the humans who live in datafied societies to live meaningful lives. He then offers Eric Stoddart’s notion of the “common gaze” to begin to imagine what those conditions might be. From this perspective, surveillance can be conceptualized as a gaze for the common good with a “preferential optic” focused on the conditions that will alleviate the suffering of the marginalized.