The New Media of Surveillance (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Magnet, Shoshana; Gates, Kelly

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317990383
• Artikelnr.: 57100255

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