The New Politics Of Surveillance And Visibility

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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. Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, surveillance has been put forward as an essential tool in the 'war on terror/ with new technologies and policies offering police and military operatives enhanced opportunities for monitoring suspect populations. In addition, the last few years have seen consumer tastes become increasingly codified, with 'data mines' of demographic information such as postal codes and purchasing records. Surveillance has also recently emerged as a form of entertainment, with 'reality' shows becoming the dominant genre on network and cable television. In the 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, and alter processes of democratic accountability. This collection challenges conventional wisdom and advances new theoretical approaches on the subject of surveillance through a series of studies on its implications in such areas as policing, the military, commercial enterprise, mass media, and the health sciences. Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 1 The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility......Page 12 PART ONE: THEORIZING SURVEILLANCE AND VISIBILITY......Page 36 2 9/11, Synopticon, and Scopophilia: Watching and Being Watched......Page 44 3 Welcome to the Society of Control: The Simulation of Surveillance Revisited......Page 64 4 Varieties of Personal Information as Influences on Attitudes towards Surveillance......Page 88 5 Struggling with Surveillance: Resistance, Consciousness, and Identity......Page 120 PART TWO: POLICE AND MILITARY SURVEILLANCE......Page 140 6 A Faustian Bargain? America and the Dream of Total Information Awareness......Page 150 7 Surveillance Fiction or Higher Policing?......Page 180 8 An Alternative Current in Surveillance and Control: Broadcasting Surveillance Footage of Crimes......Page 208 9 Surveillance and Military Transformation: Organizational Trends in Twenty-First-Century Armed Services......Page 234 10 Visible War: Surveillance, Speed, and Information War......Page 259 PART THREE: SURVEILLANCE, ELECTRONIC MEDIA, AND CONSUMER CULTURE......Page 278 11 Cracking the Consumer Code: Advertisers, Anxiety, and Surveillance in the Digital Age......Page 288 12 (En)Visioning the Television Audience: Revisiting Questions of Power in the Age of Interactive Television......Page 317 13 Cultures of Mania: Towards an Anthropology of Mood......Page 336 14 Surveillant Internet Technologies and the Growth in Information Capitalism: Spams and Public Trust in the Information Society......Page 349 15 Data Mining, Surveillance, and Discrimination in the Post-9/11 Environment......Page 372 Contributors......Page 394