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Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing addresses the ways in which camera-produced images are used to support governmental authority. The text begins by examining some of the basic levels at which the body interacts with media, and then expands the scope of the analysis to consider the use of CCTV in urban environments and how that affects the experience of space. This shows how the determination of the subject and the observer is affected by interaction with and exposure to images produced by cameras. The relationship between the body and media, between media and the determination of space and how media is used to determine the nature of deviance in contemporary Western culture are evaluated as a means of establishing and maintaining authority through images. Scholars of media theory, surveillance studies, and the social sciences will find this book particularly interesting.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Section I: The Image of Evidence
Introduction: The 'I', the Eye, and the Screen
1. The History of CCTV in Great Britain and Canada
2. Theoretical Elements of Government Surveillance
3. CCTV and the Court System
4. Theoretical Elements of CCTV As a Media Format
6. The Certainty in Images
Section II: The Image As a Component of Governing
7. Governmentality and the CCTV Image
8. Visibility and Control
9. The Performance of Governing
10. Practices and the Distancing of Government From the Population
11. Camera Surveillance As an Exercise of Power
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
Jeff Heydon teaches in the Communications Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Summary
Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing addresses the ways in which camera-produced images are used to support governmental authority in contemporary Western culture.
