The New Media of Surveillance

Herausgeber: Magnet, Shoshana; Gates, Kelly

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The spread of new surveillance technologies is an issue of major concern for democratic societies. More ubiquitous and sophisticated monitoring techniques raise profound questions for the very possibility of individual autonomy and democratic government. Innovations in surveillance systems require equally innovative approaches for analyzing their social and political implications, and the field of critical communication studies is uniquely equipped to provide fresh insights. This book brings together the work of a number of critical communication scholars who take innovative approaches to examining the surveillance dimensions of new media technologies. The essays included in this volume focus on interactive networks, computer generated imagery, biometrics, and intelligent transport systems as sites where communication and surveillance have become virtually inseparable social processes. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Communication Review.

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This book examines the multiple connections between critical communication theory and surveillance studies by highlighting some major new contributions from communication scholars to our understanding of surveillance as a set of cultural and institutional practices, and especially as an instrument of social control.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415480772
• ISBN-10: 0415480779
• Artikelnr.: 25682941

Autorenporträt

Shoshana Magnet is based at the Institute of Women's Studes at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Kelly Gates is based at the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Communication Research and the Study of Surveillance Kelly Gates and
Shoshana Magnet 2. Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure Mark Andrejevic
3. Of Ziploc Bags and Black Holes: The Aesthetics of Transparency in the
War on Terror Rachel Hall 4. Monstrous Play in Negative Spaces: Illegible
Bodies and the Cultural Construction of Biometric Technology Heather Murray
5. "War Rooms" of the Street: Surveillance Practices in Transportation
Control Centers Torin Monahan 6. Getting Carded: Border Control and the
Politics of Canada's Permanent Resident Card Simone Browne 7. Therapeutics
of the Self: Surveillance in the Service of the Therapeutic Rachel E.
Dubrofsky 8. Afterword: The Socioalgorithmics of Race: Sorting it Out in
Jihad Worlds Lisa Nakamura