I am not sure that this is such a terrible idea IF we are to have CCTV. One of the main issues with CCTV is that the gaze is an unaccountable power worked by 'the state' or by some other authority. Here we have a system where any resident is able to exercise that gaze. This seems to me one of the only logical democratic solutions to how to deal with CCTV in this context. Of course it could be used for all kinds of petty grudges and score-settling, bugt that's more a comment on human beings and the political-economic system more generally not the technology itself. Like anything else people have to establish new relationships with and through the technology if it is to 'work' in ways that they want. I don't buy the comments about some idealised 1950s community, but there's no reason why this can't be positive, whether it will is a another matter....
... and of course I said IF we are to have CCTV... and the question of whether we should have it at all or so extensively is another question.
David.
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From: Research and teaching on surveillance 代理 CAMERON Derrick F
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...well, it beats Sky One, I suppose.
D.Cameron
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