Eyes everywhere: the global growth of camera surveillance
"In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance technologies and processes. While...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
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| Summary: | "In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance technologies and processes. While there is sometimes fierce debate about their introduction, many others take the cameras for granted or even applaud their deployment. Yet what the presence of surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in question. International evidence shows that they have very little effect in deterring crime and in 'making people feel safer', but they do serve to place certain groups under greater official scrutiny and to extend the reach of today's 'surveillance society'. Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the development of camera surveillance. It scrutinizes the quiet but massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also including less-debated but important contexts such as Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. Containing both broad overviews and illuminating case-studies, including cameras in taxi-cabs and at mega-events such as the Olympics, the book offers a valuable oversight on the status of camera surveillance in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The book will be fascinating reading for students and scholars of camera surveillance as well as policy makers and practitioners from the police, chambers of commerce, private security firms and privacy- and data-protection agencies."--Publisher's website Part 1: Situating Camera Surveillance Growth. 'There's no Success like Failure and Failure's no Success at all': Some Critical Reflections on the Global Growth of Camera Surveillance / Clive Norris ; What Goes Up, Must Come Down: On the Moribundity of Camera Networks in the UK / Gavin Smith ; Seeing Surveillantly: Surveillance as Social Practice / Jonathan Finn. -- Part 2: International Growth of Camera Surveillance. Cameras in Context: A Comparison of the Place of Video Surveillance in Japan and Brazil / David Murakami Wood ; The Growth and Further Proliferation of Camera Surveillance in South Africa / Anthony Minaar ; The Piecemeal Development of Camera Surveillance in Canada / Emily Smith. -- Part 3: Evolving Forms and Uses of Camera Surveillance. The Electronic Eye of the Police: The Provincial Information and Security System in Istanbul / Alanur Çavlin Bozbeyoğlu ; Policing in the Age of Information: Automated Number Place Recognition / Patrick Derby ; Video Surveillance in Vancouver: Legacies of the Games / Micheal Vonn and Philip Boyle ; Selling Surveillance: The Introduction of Cameras in Ottawa Taxis / Aaron Doyle and Kevin Walby ; Deploying Camera Surveillance Images: The Case of Crime Stoppers / Randy Lippert and Blair Wilkinson ; Hidden Changes: From CCTV to 'Smart' Video Surveillance / Joseph Ferenbok and Andrew Clement. -- Part 4: Public Support, Media Visions and the Politics of Representation. Anti-surveillance Activists v. The Dancing Heads of Terrorism: Signal Crimes, Media Frames, Symbolic Politics and Camera Promotion / Laura Huey ; Surveillance Cameras and Synopticism: A Case Study in Mexico City / Nelson Arteaga Botello ; Surveillance Culture and Appropriation: CCTV as Found in Footage in Manu Luksch's Faceless / Martin Zeilinger ; 'What Do You Think?': International Public Opinion of Camera Surveillance / Danielle Dawson ; Towards a Framework of Contextual Integrity: Legality, trust and compliance of CCTV Signage / Mark Lizar and Gary Potter ; Mitigating Asymmetric Visibilities: Towards a signage code for surveillance camera networks / Andrew Clement and Joseph Ferenbok ; Is it a 'Search'?: The Legal Context of Camera Surveillance in Canada / Mathew Johnson ; Privacy As Security: Surveillance Camera Signage and Informed Consent / Christopher Burt ; Reversing the Conventional Wisdom on Video Surveillance in Canada / Robert Ellis Smith |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 392 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0415696550 0415668646 9780415696555 9780415668644 |