Video Surveillance : Power and Privacy in Everyday Life.

Video Surveillance : Power and Privacy in Everyday Life.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Yesil, Bilge.
Imprint:	El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (175 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Law and Society Recht und Gesellschaft.
Subject:	Video surveillance -- United States. Electronic surveillance -- United States. Electronic monitoring in the workplace -- United States. Electronic monitoring in the workplace. Electronic surveillance. Video surveillance. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123502

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ISBN:	9781593325763 1593325762
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Yesil proposes that video surveillance is not a novel technology specific to the post-September 11 era, but that it can be historicized within crime prevention and risk management initiatives going back to the 1970s. Analyzing press coverage, security industry statements, and federal agency and law enforcement reports, Yesil discusses this visual technique of knowing and communicating as part of the larger culture of control, and she situates it in the broader processes of rationalization and normalization. Based on interviews with police officers, school administrators, students and private c.
Other form:	Print version: Yesil, Bilge. Video Surveillance : Power and Privacy in Everyday Life. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, ©2010 9781593323707

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Surveillance and the city
Reading, writing and surveillance
Understanding privacy
Conclusion.