The Visiocracy of the Social Security Mobile App in Australia

This paper examines the forms of life established through the visual governance of the Australian social security mobile app (application)—the Express Plus Centrelink app. It is argued that the app exceeds established accounts of juridical and administrative power. The app involves a seeing that is...

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Published in:International journal for the semiotics of law = Revue internationale de sémiotique juridique 2017-09, Vol.30 (3), p.495-514
Main Authors: Sleep, Lyndal, Tranter, Kieran
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied Linguistics
Fundamentals of Law
Law
Law and Criminology
Legal History
Philosophy of Law
Theories of Law
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Summary:This paper examines the forms of life established through the visual governance of the Australian social security mobile app (application)—the Express Plus Centrelink app. It is argued that the app exceeds established accounts of juridical and administrative power. The app involves a seeing that is not public, a responding that is not writing and a de-materialisation of an institution and its disciplinary apparatus. It is argued that the app creates proto-literate subjects that are required to respond to a real-time sequence of images in a highly structured and circumscribed manner to become complicit in the digitalisation of their life.
ISSN:0952-8059
1572-8722
DOI:10.1007/s11196-016-9498-1