The surveillance web : the rise of visual surveillance in an English city / / Michael McCahill
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| Autore: |
McCahill Michael
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| Titolo: |
The surveillance web : the rise of visual surveillance in an English city / / Michael McCahill
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| Pubblicazione: | Cullompton, Devon, U.K. ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Willan Pub., , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.25/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Closed-circuit television - England |
| Crime prevention - England | |
| Electronic surveillance - England | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; The Surveillance Web: The rise of visual surveillance in an English city; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Theory and Method; Chapter 1 Towards a contemporary theory of surveillance; Time-space distanciation and the panopticon; Post-Fordism and surveillance; The risk society; From theory to method; Part 2 The Rise of Visual Surveillance in Northern City; Chapter 2 The story of Northern City; The CCTV Challenge Competition; The local media and CCTV; CCTV in the Daily Echo; Summary; Chapter 3 The surveillance web |
| The human mediation of technology: limits to system integrationSummary; Part 3 Three Case Studies of Visual Surveillance Systems; Chapter 4 The panopticon mall; The social construction of suspicion in two shopping malls; Familiar names and familiar faces: personalised suspicion in a shopping mall; Appropriate use of space in a shopping mall; Managerial concerns; Discussion; Chapter 5 Watching the workers; Managing the threat to profitability: monitoring the external threat; Managing the threat to profitability: monitoring the internal threat; Improving worker performance; Discussion | |
| Chapter 6 Watching the tenantsBackground; External versus internal dangers: the CCTV system; The access control system; The 'violence of poverty'; Discussion: the 'context specificity' of visual surveillance systems; Part 4 Back to Theory; Chapter 7 Back to theory; The 'electronic panopticon'; Governance and risk; Post-Fordism, folklore and class solidarities; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The rise of CCTV and surveillance technologies has been one of the key developments in contemporary society, but its impact has often been analysed in a fragmented manner. This book addresses this issue by providing a detailed, micro-sociological account of the construction of a CCTV network in one English city. It differs from previous studies (which have concentrated on open street CCTV systems) in documenting and analysing the use of visual surveillance systems in a number of different locations and institutional settings, including the industrial workplace, shopping malls, high-rise housin |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The surveillance web |
| ISBN: | 1-134-03479-2 |
| 1-281-33196-1 | |
| 9786611331962 | |
| 1-84392-488-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454059303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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