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2003 |
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Surveillance involves the observation, recording and categorization of information
about people, processes and institutions. It calls for the collection of information,
its storage, examination and – as a rule – its transmission. It is a distinguishing
feature of
modernity, though until the 1980s the centrality of surveillance to the making of
our world had been underestimated in social analysis. Over the years surveillance
has become increasingly systematic and embedded in everyday life, particularly as
state
(and, latterly, supra-state) agencies and corporations have
strengthened and consolidated their positions. More and more we are surveilled in
quite routine activities, as we make telephone calls, pay by debit card, walk into
a store and into the path of security cameras, or enter a library through electronic
turnstiles. It is important that this routine character of much surveillance is registered,
since commentators so often focus exclusively on the dramatic manifestations of surveillance
such as communications interceptions and spy satellites in pursuit of putative and
deadly enemies. In recent decades, aided by innovations in information and communications
technologies (ICTs), surveillance has expanded
and deepened its reach enormously. |
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Ball, K. and Webster, F. (2003). The intensification of surveillance. In: Ball,
K. and Webster, F. eds. The Intensification of Surveillance: crime, terrorism
and warfare in the information era. London: Pluto Press, pp. 1–15. |
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label |
Ball, K. and Webster, F. (2003). The intensification of surveillance. In: Ball, K.
and Webster, F. eds. The Intensification of Surveillance: crime, terrorism and
warfare in the information era. London: Pluto Press, pp. 1–15. |
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Title |
The intensification of surveillance |
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oro |