We Like to Watch: Race and the Sociology of Surveillance

ISBN-13: 9780415730037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 85 str.

Simone Browne

Opis

We Like to Watch gets its title from a "Time" magazine cover story on reality television and Americans "passion for peeping." This book takes sociological theories of race and applies them to the study of surveillance in a style and format that can be easily adopted as a required text for undergraduate courses on Surveillance, New Media, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. Topics explored in this book include: reality television, CCTV and social media."

Spis treści

1. Up in the Air: Airports and Racial Profiling 2. Slavery and Surveillance: Historical Perspectives 3. @YesYoureRacist: Racisim and Shaming on Social Media 4. CCTV and Reality TV