I'm trying hard here not to embrace the surveillance society
hypothesis, but sometimes skepticism is hard to achieve... In the
Guardian this morning (2/10/98) in a report about Jack Straw's
announcement at the Labour Conference ( page three, "Alarms for homes
in £50m blitz on burglars" by Alan Travis...), I found this...
"The money will be used to lend alarms to those who cannot afford to
fit them... Other measures include installing mobile closed circuit
television to provide temporary surveillance. The systems are to move
around so that burglar do not know if they are being filmed".
Sounds familiar, eh?
By the way, I teach media and cultural studies at Liverpool John Moores
university and I'm interested surveillance because of my recent work
on reality TV and the way it might converge with neo-liberal government
strategies of self-monitoring, self-examination and so on. At the
moment I'm working on "Video Nation" and "You've Been Framed!". I
probably met some of you at the Surveillance conference in June - but
hope to hear what other folks are up to as well.
Nicole
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