The New Politics of Surveillance And Visibility

by Haggerty, Kevin D.; Ericson, Richard V.

• ISBN13: 9780802048783
• ISBN10: 0802048781
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

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

Acknowledgments	vii
1 The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility	3	(32)
KEVIN D. HAGGERTY AND RICHARD V. ERICSON
PART ONE: THEORIZING SURVEILLANCE AND VISIBILITY
2 9/11, Synopticon, and Scopophilia: Watching and Being Watched	35	(20)
DAVID LYON
3 Welcome to the Society of Control: The Simulation of Surveillance Revisited	55	(24)
WILLIAM BOGARD
4 Varieties of Personal Information as Influences on Attitudes towards Surveillance	79	(32)
GARY T. MARX
5 Struggling with Surveillance: Resistance, Consciousness, and Identity	111	(30)
JOHN GILLIOM
PART TWO: POLICE AND MILITARY SURVEILLANCE
6 A Faustian Bargain? America and the Dream of Total Information Awareness	141	(30)
REG WHITAKER
7 Surveillance Fiction or Higher Policing?	171	(28)
JEAN-PAUL BRODEUR AND STÉPHANE LEMAN-LANGLOIS
8 An Alternative Current in Surveillance and Control: Broadcasting Surveillance Footage of Crimes	199	(26)
AARON DOYLE
9 Surveillance and Military Transformation: Organizational Trends in Twenty-First-Century Armed Services	225	(25)
CHRISTOPHER DANDEKER
10 Visible War: Surveillance, Speed, and Information War	250	(29)
KEVIN D. HAGGERTY
PART THREE: SURVEILLANCE, ELECTRONIC MEDIA, AND CONSUMER CULTURE
11 Cracking the Consumer Code: Advertisers, Anxiety, and Surveillance in the Digital Age	279	(29)
JOSEPH TUROW
12 (En)Visioning the Television Audience: Revisiting Questions of Power in the Age of Interactive Television	308	(19)
SERRA TINIC
13 Cultures of Mania: Towards an Anthropology of Mood	327	(13)
EMILY MARTIN
14 Surveillant Internet Technologies and the Growth in Information Capitalism: Spams and Public Trust in the Information Society	340	(23)
DAVID S. WALL
15 Data Mining, Surveillance, and Discrimination in the Pos1-9/11 Environment	363	(22)
OSCAR GANDY JR
Contributors	385