panopticon
- n an area where everything is visible
- n a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
- Both groups are encouraging voters to use Twitter as a kind of panopticon of the polling process.
- Philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) once designed a kind of Orwellian prison called the panopticon, a jail building meant to provide warders with a view into the cells.
- Every once in a while, even the omniscient, panopticon-like gaze of The Professional Television Watcher misses something.