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."
We Like to Watch gets its title from a "Time" magazine cover story on reality television and Americans "passion for peeping." This book takes socio...
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, Browne draws from black feminist theory, sociology, and cultural studies to analyze texts as diverse as...
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted...
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws. Placing surveillance studies into conversation with the archive of transatlantic slavery and its afterlife, Browne draws from black feminist theory, sociology, and cultural studies to analyze texts as diverse as...
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted...
