My metaphor for what you are describing with the youth culture (and my not so youthfulness, to be sure) is that of the two-way mirror used in psychology (so your Skinner reference is perhaps not that far off!): the network exists at once as a mirror in which we watch our performance of ourselves, but also is a see-through surface in which everyone else is watching. The thing is, we know it is a two-way mirror and we continue anyways. I think this threshold, this fragmentation of the self, is the site of a particular micropolitics, though I can't say what just yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip

The thing that's important about the Moebius strip is that it is pure surface. We are not talking about "two sides of the same coin" but rather two things that are in fact the same thing, though slightly twisted.

Paul Virilio talks about the stereorealism of being here in space (in my house, sitting on a chair) and now in the real-time of network communications (chatting with people on the other side of the world, watching live TV broadcasts from another hemisphere), which he suggests has dramatic consequences for our perception of the world and thus our conditions of possibility for knowledge.

On my trip I am all of a sudden with these people in the here, who are normally in my now. My subjectivity has changed only slightly: I got on a plane and flew to Paris. However, the half turn of the Moebius strip is such that it's all the change in the world. The trip ends, here and now are flipped, yet because of the real-time of the network I carry these intimate relations on with me through the network back in the now.

Of course, the Moebius strip has great currency in continental philosophy, so perhaps I am just looking extra hard for them and am full of shit.

I like this…but I am thinking of a youth culture intent not on escaping the matrix of surveillance, but on bathing in it. Something far beyond the simplistic critiques I've read of voyeurism and narcissism, though. A public, collective, at once intimate (often embarrassingly so?), and distant. Local (only for MY viewers) and universal (accessed by ALL viewers). What do we make of the panopticon when even under constant surveillance there IS no self-policing? Is it resistance, or more akin to the rats in experimental psychology work who, after being zapped into submission in the Skinner box, simply resign themselves to whatever consequences befall them?

Also, I am still struggling with the Mobius Strip deal…need more clarification.