Surveillance & Society | the international journal of surveillance studies
Vol 8, No 1 | Open Issue
The first issue of our eighth volume is out now, with four particularly provocative pieces from
Plus opinion and reviews.
Adding comment 1. September 2010 - 08:44
Die Kollegen Minas Samatas von Kreta und Kevin Haggerty aus Alberta haben ein neues Buch herausgegeben: “Surveillance and Democracy mit Kapiteln von David Lyon, Deborah Johnson ,Torin Monahan, Michalis Lianos, Kirstie Ball, Lilian Mitrou, Minas Samatas, und anderen. Mehr Infos auf der Seite des Verlages.
This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? As surveillance measures are increasingly justified in terms of national security, is there the prospect that a shadow “security state” will emerge? How might new surveillance measures alter the conceptions of citizens and citizenship which are at the heart of democracy? How might new communication and surveillance systems extend (or limit) the prospects for meaningful public activism?
Adding comment 4. August 2010 - 14:38
Volume 7 | Number 3/4
edited by Valerie Steeves and Owain Jones
unter anderem mit Artikeln von
Adding comment 8. July 2010 - 07:38
Surveillance & Society
Vol 7, No 2 (2010) Surveillance, Performance and New Media Art
edited by John McGrath and Bob Sweeny
Adding comment 5. June 2010 - 20:28
Ab sofort gibt es das aktuelle White Paper der Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) zum Thema Browser Uniqueness. Das Ergebnis in aller Kürze:
EFF UNVEILED RESULTS FROM THE “PANOPTICLICK” BROWSER
PRIVACY PROJECT, which demonstrated that more than
8 in 10 people use browsers with unique, trackable
signatures. Having a distinct browser signature means your
individual movements on the web may be easier to track,
and several companies are already selling products that
claim to use browser fingerprinting to help websites
identify users and their online activities.
Adding comment 20. May 2010 - 14:56
Manchmal lohnt es sich auch Informationen zu kaufen – nicht nur bei Steuer-CDs, sondern auch für Artikel der Journalistin Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti bei c’t – aktuell zur sozialen Rasterfahndung.
Adding comment 27. April 2010 - 21:34
Eine aktuelle Buchempfehlung: “Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine…And Fighting It” von Mark Klein.
Whistleblower Mark Klein tells the story of the illegal government spying apparatus installed at an AT&T office by the National Security Agency, and his battle to bring it to light and protect Americans’ 4th Amendment rights.
Adding comment 21. March 2010 - 13:01
Der Kollege Torin Monahan hat ein neues Buch veröffentlicht. Der Inhalt klingt jetzt nicht so neu, aber er hat in der Vergangenheit mit sehr guten Arbeiten zur Diskussion beigetragen. Aus dem Inhalt:
Threats of terrorism, natural disaster, identity theft, job loss, illegal immigration, and even biblical apocalypse—all are perils that trigger alarm in people today. Although there may be a factual basis for many of these fears, they do not simply represent objective conditions. Feelings of insecurity are instilled by politicians and the media, and sustained by urban fortification, technological surveillance, and economic vulnerability.
Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity fuses advanced theoretical accounts of state power and neoliberalism with original research from the social settings in which insecurity dynamics play out in the new century. Torin Monahan explores the counterterrorism-themed show 24, Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, security conferences, public housing, and gated communities, and examines how each manifests complex relationships of inequality, insecurity, and surveillance. Alleviating insecurity requires that we confront its mythic dimensions, the politics inherent in new configurations of security provision, and the structural obstacles to achieving equality in societies.
Hier gibt es mehr Infos zum Buch und zum Autor.
Adding comment 16. March 2010 - 10:24
Vol. 2/2010 des Online-Magazins Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research widmet sich dem Schwerpunkt Surveillance, u.a. mit Aufsätzen von Mark Andrejevic: Reading the Surface: Body Language and Surveillance; Kelly Gates, The Tampa “Smart CCTV” Experiment und Henry Krisp The Politics of the Gaze Foucault, Lacan and Žižek.
Adding comment 10. March 2010 - 16:15
So sieht es zumindest Timothy Garton Ash, dessen Zitat ich heute im Tagesspiegel entdeckte:
“Tatsächlich ist es wohl Ihre Geschichte, die erklärt, warum Sie nicht so enthusiastisch über einen seine Bürger ausspionierenden Staat sind (zum wiederholten Male). So wie es der britische Akademiker und Journalist Timothy Garton Ash – der selbst eine Stasi Akte hatte und darüber in seinem großartigen Buch ["Die Akte Romeo", Anm.) geschrieben hat – aufgezeigt hat: “Precisely because German lawmakers and judges know what it was like to live in a Stasi state, and before that in a Nazi one, they have guarded these things [privacy] more jealously than we, the British, who have taken them for granted. You value health most when you have been sick”.”
Adding comment 3. March 2010 - 18:24
