Practicing Academic Writing - Triangulation

"Different types of paragraph demonstrate that you can analyse, research. paraphrase etc. But the most important type of writing is one that demonstrates that you can support your arrangements with a demonstrable knowledge of appropriate academic texts."

"Ability to write a paragraph that shows breadth of research and ability to triangulate is therefore very important."

I used Panopticism as an example as I feel more comfortable with the text and I work work this paragraph into my essay?

A number of authors have considered how panoptic methods can make individuals and groups of people self-censor, example Chinese Internet users conforming and regulating their online activities.  Mason (2002), Foucault (1975) and Farivar, Cerf (2011) commented on the fact that if people think they are being monitored constantly they will adjust their behaviour to the ideal idea of the authoritative power. For instance Mason (2002) commenting on Foucault’s idea of people being aware that they are visible to an external body and that  “The fact that the inmates know that the supervisors can see what they are doing, that enables the panoptic institution to effectively control a large mass of people.” Supported by Cyrus Farivar and Vintong Cerf (2011) who talks about the methodology of the enforcement by the Chinese Internet Police “There’s a randomness to their enforcement, and that creates a sense that they’re looking at everything.”

This analysis is further supported by Foucault (1975) himslef who also said “The ideal point of penality today would be an indefinite discipline: an interrogation without end, an investigation that would be extended without limit to a meticulous and ever more analytical observation, a judgement that would at the same be the constitution of a file that was never closed”

It is no mystery to the Chinese people that the Internet they use is heavily censored and monitored rigorously. The government doesn’t hide the fact that they penetrate every aspect of the PRC’s Internet but instead seeks the opposite, they rely on the PRC knowing they are being constantly analysed and studied with nowhere to hide online, as it is a far more productive method of administration.