Das British Journal of Sociology bietet auf seinen Webseiten öffentliche Vorträge als Podcast an. Dieser hier ist für einige Leser hier bestimmt von Interesse.
BJS 2009 Public Lecture Podcast
Bringing the Penal State Back In
Loic Wacquant and Nicola Lacey debate the need to bring the penal state back into the centre of the sociology of social inequaltiy, public policy and citizenship.
Adding comment 11. November 2009 - 22:27
Hier ein Artikel aus dem Guardian, der die Wissenschaft hinter Dokumenten und Statistiken des britischen Home office diskutiert.
Beim Guardian: Home Office research so feeble someone ought to be locked up .. ..und in Ben Goldacre badscience-Blog direkt: Is this a joke? Und darum geht es:
Luckily, the Home Office has now published a consultation paper on the subject. They defend their database by arguing that innocent people who have been arrested are as likely to commit crimes in the future as guilty people. “This,” they say, “is obviously a controversial assertion.” That’s not true: it’s a simple matter of fact, and you could easily assemble some good quality evidence to see if it’s true or not.
The Home Office has assembled some evidence. It is not good quality. In fact, this study from the Jill Dando Institute, attached to their consultation paper as an appendix, is possibly the most unclear and poorly presented piece of research I have ever seen in a professional environment. Or am I having a bad day? Join me in my struggle to understand their work.
Adding comment 19. July 2009 - 21:51
Published a couple of days ago, was a report by the Inspectors General of the US DOD, DOJ, CIA, NSA and office of the Director of National Intelligence, on the intelligence gathering activities and programmes given presidential approval after september 11th, collectively referred to as ‘the president’s surveillance program’
Here is the unclassified version.
Adding comment 15. July 2009 - 14:41
Here is the UK government’s response to the House of Lords Consitution Commitee inquiry on Surveillance: Citizens and the State.
In the Surveillance & Society issue No 3 2009, you can find a discussion of the report by Katherine Hayles, Oscar Gandy, Katja Aas and Mark Andrejevic. Charles Raab, who was specialist advisor to the Lords Commitee will be responding in the next issue.
See also this entry.
Adding comment 24. May 2009 - 22:27
New Issue Out Now! Health, Medicine and Surveillance
- (edited by Sarah Earle, Pam Foley, Carol Komaromy, and Cathy E. Lloyd)
Featuring articles by:
- Martin A. French – Woven of War-Time Fabrics: The globalization of public health surveillance
- Susanne Bauer, Jan Eric Olsén – Observing the Others, Watching Over Oneself: Themes of medical surveillance in post-panoptic society
- Sarah Weibe – Producing Bodies and Borders: A review of immigrant medical examinations in Canada
- Cheryl Day – Does my bum look big in this? Reconsidering anorexia nervosa within the cultural context of 20th century Australia
- Mebbie Bell – ‘@ the doctor’s office’: Pro-anorexia and the medical gaze
- Emma Rich and Andy Miah – Prothetic Surveillance: The medical governance of healthy bodies in cyberspace
and lots of book reviews…
Adding comment 16. March 2009 - 22:59
Ein Video bei Google, offensichtlich in Zusammenhang mit einem Buch erschienen, welches die Situtation in Großbritannien hinsichtlich der Bürgerrechte und ihres Abbaus unter Labour zum Thema hat. Die Beschreibung zum Film:
TAKING LIBERTIES is a shocking but hilarious polemic documentary that charts the destruction of all your Basic Liberties under 10 Years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair’s departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal people who’s lives have been turned upside down by injustice – from being arrested for holding a placard outside parliament to being tortured in Guantanamo Bay.
Adding comment 13. September 2008 - 21:40
The International Herald Tribune has an article about the latest in consumer research technology: Billboards that look back.
You thought you were looking at an advertisement, but in fact it is looking at you and scanning you for age, sex by way of biometric analysis – and race will be introduced as a feature soon
The goal, these companies say, is to tailor a digital display to the person standing in front of it – to show one advertisement to a middle-aged white woman, for example, and a different one to a teenage Asian boy.
“Everything we do is completely anonymous,” said Paolo Prandoni, the founder and chief scientific officer of Quividi, a two-year-old company based in Paris that is gearing up billboards here and abroad. Quividi and its competitors specifically target digital billboards, which tend to play short videos as advertisements
That is now, but what possibilities does that open – the Minority Report does ring a bell here.
Adding comment 18. June 2008 - 14:03
Spacecowboys – a workshop about hybrid spaces :: May 6-7, 2008 ::
Z33, Hasselt, Belgium :: 15-20 participants within a wide range of disciplines
Free.
Our feeling of space and place changes and refreshes constantly through the
interaction and communication possibilities of new media. Locations and
environments may be altered from public to a private and from concrete to
virtual through mobile technologies. These hybrid spaces create emotional
and aesthetic possibilities for artists to experiment with. How do artists
work with hybrid space and how do they make us aware of the social and
cultural implications?
This workshop will be moderated by John Hopkins. Speakers & guests: Armin
Medosh, Anne Nigten, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Eric Kluitenberg, Kurt Vanhoutte,
Peter Westenberg, Maja Kuzmanovic and Pieter van Bogaert.
Weiterlesen »
Adding comment 31. March 2008 - 21:32
Surveillance and Inequality, vol. 5 (3), edited by Torin Monahan
From the Editorial:
Many domains of social life are being transfigured by new technologies of identification, monitoring, tracking, data analysis, and control. The lived experiences of people subjected to surveillance, however, can vary widely along lines of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, and nationality. This can be seen with the enforcement of different types of mobilities for different categories of people, whether at borders, on city streets, or on the Internet. It can also be observed with the increasingly invasive monitoring and disciplining of those accessing public services, such as welfare, public education, or healthcare, especially in the U.S. It can be perceived in security-screening and police-profiling practices, which continue to rely upon racial markers of “risk.” Or inequality can be found in the uneven treatment of individuals by insurance providers, credit agencies, service centers, or other commercial entities. Regardless of the domain, new surveillance systems often amplify existing social inequalities and reproduce regimes of control and/or exclusion of marginalized groups in societies.
Adding comment 27. March 2008 - 12:37
With “The most spied upon people in Europe” the BBC tries to give an overview of European countries and the level of surveillance their respective citizens have to cope with. Germany, Britain, France, Denmark, Greece and Italy, which to my surprise the authors claim is the most surveilled country of those six.
Italians are among the most spied upon people in the world. That’s the conclusion of the authoritative German scientific think-tank, the Max Planck Institute, which reports that Italy leads the world with 76 intercepts per 100,000 people each year.
Funny enough it was a German research institute from the Max Planck network that did the study – though they do not say which it was.
Adding comment 28. February 2008 - 09:18
