We Like to Watch - Race and the Sociology of Surveillance

We Like to Watch gets its title from a Time magazine cover story on reality television and Americans' "passion for peeping". This book takes sociological theories of race and applies them to the study of surveillance in a style and format that can be easily adopted as a required text for undergraduate courses on Surveillance, New Media, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. Topics explored in this book include: reality television, CCTV and social media.

List of contents

1. Up in the Air: Airports and Racial Profiling 2. Slavery and Surveillance: Historical Perspectives 3. @YesYoureRacist: Racisim and Shaming on Social Media 4. CCTV and Reality TV

Product details

• Authors: Simone Browne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.12.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780415730037
• ISBN: 978-0-415-73003-7
• No. of pages: 85
• Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)