The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility
Published on 27. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-8020-4878-3 (ISBN)
Description
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, surveillance has been put forward as the essential tool for the 'war on terror,' with new technologies and policies offering police and military operatives enhanced opportunities for monitoring suspect populations. The last few years have also seen the public's consumer tastes become increasingly codified, with 'data mines' of demographic information such as postal codes and purchasing records. Additionally, surveillance has become a form of entertainment, with 'reality' shows becoming the dominant genre on network and cable television.
In The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility, editors Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson bring together leading experts to analyse how society is organized through surveillance systems, technologies, and practices. They demonstrate how the new political uses of surveillance make visible that which was previously unknown, blur the boundaries between public and private, rewrite the norms of privacy, create new forms of inclusion and exclusion, and alter processes of democratic accountability. This collection challenges conventional wisdom and advances new theoretical approaches through a series of studies of surveillance in policing, the military, commercial enterprises, mass media, and health sciences.
In The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility, editors Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson bring together leading experts to analyse how society is organized through surveillance systems, technologies, and practices. They demonstrate how the new political uses of surveillance make visible that which was previously unknown, blur the boundaries between public and private, rewrite the norms of privacy, create new forms of inclusion and exclusion, and alter processes of democratic accountability. This collection challenges conventional wisdom and advances new theoretical approaches through a series of studies of surveillance in policing, the military, commercial enterprises, mass media, and health sciences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-4878-3 (9780802048783)
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Kevin D. Haggerty is a member of Green College and a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of British Columbia.
The late Richard V. Ericson was Principal of Green College, University of British Columbia, a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and graduate education.
The late Richard V. Ericson was Principal of Green College, University of British Columbia, a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and graduate education.
Content
Acknowledgments
The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility
KEVIN D. HAGGERTY and RICHARD V. ERICSON
PART ONE: THEORIZING SURVEILLANCE AND VISIBILITY
9/11, Synopticon, and Scopophilia: Watching and Being Watched
DAVID LYON
Welcome to the Society of Control: The Simulation of Surveillance Revisited
WILLIAM BOGARD
Varieties of Personal Information as Influences on Attitudes towards Surveillance
GARY T. MARX
Struggling with Surveillance: Resistance, Consciousness, and Identity
JOHN GILLIOM
PART TWO: POLICE AND MILITARY SURVEILLANCE
A Faustian Bargain? America and the Dream of Total Information Awareness
Surveillance Fiction or Higher Policing?
JEAN-PAUL BRODEUR and STEPHANE LEMAN-LANGLOIS
An Alternative Current in Surveillance and Control: Broadcasting Surveillance Footage of Crimes
AARON DOYLE
Surveillance and Military Transformation: Organizational Trends in Twenty-First-Century Armed Services
CHRISTOPHER DANDEKER
Visible War: Surveillance, Speed, and Information War
KEVIN D. HAGGERTY
PART THREE: SURVEILLANCE, ELECTRONIC MEDIA, AND CONSUMER CULTURE
Cracking the Consumer Code: Advertisers, Anxiety, and Surveillance in the Digital Age
JOSEPH TUROW
(En)Visioning the Television Audience: Revisiting Questions of Power in the Age of Interactive Television
SERRA TINIC
Cultures of Mania: Towards an Anthropology of Mood
EMILY MARTIN
Surveillant Internet Technologies and the Growth in Information Capitalism: Spams and Public Trust in the Information Society
DAVID S. WALL
Data Mining, Surveillance, and Discrimination in the Post-9/11 Environment
OSCAR GANDY JR
Contributors
The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility
KEVIN D. HAGGERTY and RICHARD V. ERICSON
PART ONE: THEORIZING SURVEILLANCE AND VISIBILITY
9/11, Synopticon, and Scopophilia: Watching and Being Watched
DAVID LYON
Welcome to the Society of Control: The Simulation of Surveillance Revisited
WILLIAM BOGARD
Varieties of Personal Information as Influences on Attitudes towards Surveillance
GARY T. MARX
Struggling with Surveillance: Resistance, Consciousness, and Identity
JOHN GILLIOM
PART TWO: POLICE AND MILITARY SURVEILLANCE
A Faustian Bargain? America and the Dream of Total Information Awareness
Surveillance Fiction or Higher Policing?
JEAN-PAUL BRODEUR and STEPHANE LEMAN-LANGLOIS
An Alternative Current in Surveillance and Control: Broadcasting Surveillance Footage of Crimes
AARON DOYLE
Surveillance and Military Transformation: Organizational Trends in Twenty-First-Century Armed Services
CHRISTOPHER DANDEKER
Visible War: Surveillance, Speed, and Information War
KEVIN D. HAGGERTY
PART THREE: SURVEILLANCE, ELECTRONIC MEDIA, AND CONSUMER CULTURE
Cracking the Consumer Code: Advertisers, Anxiety, and Surveillance in the Digital Age
JOSEPH TUROW
(En)Visioning the Television Audience: Revisiting Questions of Power in the Age of Interactive Television
SERRA TINIC
Cultures of Mania: Towards an Anthropology of Mood
EMILY MARTIN
Surveillant Internet Technologies and the Growth in Information Capitalism: Spams and Public Trust in the Information Society
DAVID S. WALL
Data Mining, Surveillance, and Discrimination in the Post-9/11 Environment
OSCAR GANDY JR
Contributors