The Canadian historian Robert Gellately has observed, for instance, that because of the widespread willingness of Germans to inform on each other to the Gestapo that Germany between 1933-45 was a prime example of Panopticism.
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The second argument concerns surveillance redundance, and it is increasingly relevant in the age of Facebook and online self-disclosure.
Influential works preceding this essay include George Orwell's 1984, Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Constituents of a Theory of the Media, and Michel Foucault's works surrounding the concept of panopticism.
Michel Foucault's theory of surveillance (Panopticism) describes a networks of power, where all parties are transfixed by the actions of the others in the network.