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@article{191162,
        author = {Almidha.M.A and Santhi. V},
        title = {The Literature of Surveillance: From Orwell’s Panopticon to Post-Internet Fiction},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {6068-6073},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=191162},
        abstract = {Surveillance has always been more than a political tool; it is a psychological state that influences how people perceive themselves within power structures. Long before digital technologies emerged, literature anticipated and questioned the consequences of being watched. Surveillance in literature has never been restricted to acts of watching. It has always been about power, obedience, and the subtle shaping of the self. From early theoretical models of surveillance to twentieth-century dystopian fiction and contemporary post-internet narratives, literature depicts how observation evolves from an external force to an internal habit. This paper explores the evolution of surveillance, from the Panopticon as a discipline structure to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and post-internet fiction written in a world where surveillance no longer requires a visible authority. It contends that, while Orwell envisioned surveillance as coerced and violent, post-internet fiction reveals a more unsettling reality: surveillance maintained through consent, participation, and self-monitoring. The Panopticon does not disappear in the digital age. It becomes wireless, ambient, and willingly populated.},
        keywords = {Surveillance, Dystopian, Panopticon, Post-internet Fiction, George Orwell.},
        month = {January},
        }