Opening the Black Box: The Work of Watching

ISBN-13: 9780415587297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 184 str.

Smith

Opis

Social control has, in recent times, undergone a series of technological transformations. CCTV, which has become a common feature of the urban landscape, is one such innovation. Although one might perceive such technologies as inanimate objects, this book situates them in a wider social context and offers an alternative perspective.

Spis treści

Part I: Problematizing and Contextualizing Watching Practices  1. Towards Supervisory Circulations: Circuitry coordinates  2. Engaging Circuitries: Researching supervisory circulations  Part II: Engaging the Means of Watching  3. Instigating Circuitries: Inception and reception  4. Construing Circuitries: Supervisory projection  5. Bearing Circuitries: Supervisory subjection  6. Sustaining Circuitries: Supervisory aberration

O autorze

Gavin J.D. Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Australian National University. He is the author of many reviews, book chapters, journal articles and media reports on the social impacts and implications of surveillance diffusion. His current research explicates the dynamic interplay between systems and subjects of surveillance, particularly the interpretive meanings people attribute to their visibility and the labour they invest in managing their ascribed `data-body'.