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Q Nowadays we are quite used to hearing in the news about terms such as surveillance. With all the mobile technology in our lives, we have almost become accustomed to always being watched in some way. Michel Foucault raises the question of how these technologies control our lives and even our bodies. Please answer the following question: 1) While our mobile technologies are supposed to free us, how does Foucault argue that modern technology creates a new way of controlling human behavior? 2) Explore how technology controls your everyday behavior. Here think about how cell phones, social networking apps, and other technologies control your attention.

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1. The argument of Foucault is so true these days as the modern technology creates a new way of controlling the human behavior. Following the argument of Michael Foucault, it can be stated that technology can be associated with the diverse human behaviors. Foucault’s theory also states that technology often helps the express the languages. However, it also controls the human behavior by developing knowledge on the culture of the particular society (Behrent, 2013). Modern technology provides different kind of subject and expects from us to behave accordingly.