The surveillance web : the rise of visual surveillance in an English city / / Michael McCahill

• Autore: McCahill Michael
• 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
• 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: 1-134-03486-5; 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.: 9910824484403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II