The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility / / ed. by Kevin Haggerty, Richard Ericson.

• MitwirkendeR: Bogard, William,; Brodeur, Jean-Paul,; D.Haggerty, Kevin,; Dandeker, Christopher,; Doyle, Aaron,; Gandy, Oscar,; Gilliom, John,; Leman-Langlois, Stephane,; Lyon, David,; Martin, Emily,; S.Wall, David,; T.Marx, Gary,; Tinic, Serra,; Turow, Joseph,; V.Ericson, Richard,; Whitaker, Reg,
• HerausgeberIn: Ericson, Richard,; Haggerty, Kevin,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Green College Thematic Lecture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility -- PART ONE. Theorizing Surveillance and Visibility -- 2. 9/11, Synopticon, and Scopophilia: Watching and Being Watched -- 3. Welcome to the Society of Control: The Simulation of Surveillance Revisited -- 4. Varieties of Personal Information as Influences on Attitudes towards Surveillance -- 5. Struggling with Surveillance: Resistance, Consciousness, and Identity -- PART TWO. Police and Military Surveillance -- 6. A Faustian Bargain? America and the Dream of Total Information Awareness -- 7. Surveillance Fiction or Higher Policing? -- 8. An Alternative Current in Surveillance and Control: Broadcasting Surveillance Footage of Crimes -- 9. Surveillance and Military Transformation: Organizational Trends in Twenty-first- Century Armed Services -- 10. Visible War: Surveillance, Speed, and Information War -- PART THREE. Surveillance, Electronic Media, and Consumer Culture -- 11. Cracking the Consumer Code: Advertisers, Anxiety, and Surveillance in the Digital Age -- 12. (En)Visioning the Televisual Audience: Revisiting Questions of Power in the Age of Interactive Television -- 13. Cultures of Mania: Towards an Anthropology of Mood -- 14. Surveillant Internet Technologies and the Growth in Information Capitalism: Spams and Public Trust in the Information Society -- 15. Data Mining, Surveillance, and Discrimination in the Post-9/11 Environment -- Contributors