The New Politics of Surveillance And Visibility - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0802038298 ISBN 13: 9780802038296

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2006

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0802038298
• ISBN 13: 9780802038296
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 386
• Redattore: Haggerty Kevin D., Ericson Richard V.