Wading back into this discussion on CCTV of a couple of weeks ago, I
wondered if
anyone knew of articles on or instances of CCTV (or similar surveillance
technologies) use in inpatient treatment facilities for individuals struggling
with anorexia. Surveillance of anorexic inpatients is established practice in
many (albeit more traditional) inpatient treatment programs; and, I've come
across discussions of 24 hour video-monitoring in such clinics -- the
surveilling, and often disciplinary, gaze merges with the medical gaze. Is
anyone familiar with recent references or examples of this?
Thanks, Mebbie Bell
Dept. of Sociology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Quoting "K.S.Ball" <[log in to unmask]>:
> I guess it might be interesting to see if there is anything to which
> this can be compared. For example, is current usage of the
> camera/videoing facility on many mobile/cell phones a valid
> comparison? Do we see people using their phone cameras, which are a
> widely distributed, highly mobile and personal surveillance capable
> technology, in ways which will promote local vigilantism, blackmail
> and social exclusion? If so, why so? If not, why not? For example,
> in the 7/7 bombings, the media massively relied on public mobile/cell
> phone footage for coverage of the events - more so than CCTV.
> As usual the answer will probably lie in the value systems which are
> historically embedded within the technologies and the socio-technical
> networks which support them. Clearly, the mobile/cell phone is coded
> differently to the CCTV camera, but why, and when, merits some
> consideration.
> Cheers
> Kirstie
> Dr Kirstie S Ball
> Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies
> Open University Business School
> The Open University
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