The role of technology in shaping CCTV surveillance practices

Dubbeld, Lynsey

doi:10.1080/13691180500067142

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“…Although the technologies used in surveillance have been discussed in earlier surveillance literature, the mediation and remediation (Bolter and Grusin 1996) that occurs between technology and users are still frequently overlooked. Useful exceptions are scholars such as Dubbeld (2005); Ball and Webster (2003) and Taekke (2011), who provide useful examples of how Science and Technology Studies and media studies can help find new directions for thinking about the co-evolution of technologies, practices and values associated with surveillance in the twenty-first century.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…To exemplify, several studies have been performed to explore social sorting empirically in the context of CCTV (Lyon 2003;Dubbeld 2005), showing that, despite increased reliance on software and protocol, social sorting still occurs often as a result of a white, male gaze in the CCTV control room, having a particular bias that leads to certain profiles of deviance. With the coming of more forms of automated surveillance, social-sorting processes might be more hidden or transposed into algorithms.…”

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Bentham, Deleuze and Beyond: An Overview of Surveillance Theories from the Panopticon to Participation

2016

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This paper aims to provide an overview of surveillance theories and concepts that can help to understand and debate surveillance in its many forms. As scholars from an increasingly wide range of disciplines are discussing surveillance, this literature review can offer much-needed common ground for the debate. We structure surveillance theory in three roughly chronological/thematic phases. The first two conceptualise surveillance through comprehensive theoretical frameworks which are elaborated in the third phase. The first phase, featuring Bentham and Foucault, offers architectural theories of surveillance, where surveillance is often physical and spatial, involving centralised mechanisms of watching over subjects. Panoptic structures function as architectures of power, not only directly but also through (self-) disciplining of the watched subjects. The second phase offers infrastructural theories of surveillance, where surveillance is networked and relies primarily on digital rather than physical technologies. It involves distributed forms of watching over people, with increasing distance to the watched and often dealing with data doubles rather than physical persons. Deleuze, Haggerty and Ericson, and Zuboff develop different theoretical frameworks than panopticism to conceptualise the power play involved in networked surveillance. The third phase of scholarship refines, combines or extends the main conceptual frameworks developed earlier. Surveillance theory branches out to conceptualise surveillance through concepts such as dataveillance, access control, social sorting, peer-to-peer surveillance and resistance. With the datafication of society, surveillance combines the physical with the digital, government with corporate surveillance and top-down with self-surveillance.

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Section: Building On Deleuze: Dataveillance and Social Sortingmentioning

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Bentham, Deleuze and Beyond: An Overview of Surveillance Theories from the Panopticon to Participation

2016

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“…One had a perfect hit rate that was significantly higher than that observed amongst CCTV operators, but this was obtained at the expense of a false alarm rate of 43%. A high false alarm rate in an automatic detection system can prove unacceptable to those operating a CCTV network [9]. Additionally, in terms of firearm detection, a false alarm could have very serious consequences.…”

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Automation of the CCTV-mediated detection of individuals illegally carrying firearms: combining psychological and technological approaches

Darker

Kuo²,

Yang³

et al. 2009

SPIE Proceedings

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“…Such exercises tend to put into perspective the effects of surveillance by showing the uncertainty that prevails around the existence and intelligibility of what is being observed (see also Neyland 2006;Smith 2004Smith , 2007. Similarly, observation of the CCTV control centre for Dutch railway stations led to the conclusion that the technological design of CCTV systems intrinsically limits their surveillance abilities (Dubbeld 2005). 11 Other research sheds further light on the impact of CCTV use on working practices.…”

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A prosperous ‘business’. The success of CCTV through the eyes of international literature

Germain

Dumoulin²,

Douillet³

2013

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This article deals with a paradox: video surveillance becomes widespread, in more and more numerous social and national spaces, while its effects in terms of crime prevention and\or law enforcement and community reassurance are not demonstrated. Through a critical analysis of the international literature on CCTV, this article attempts to identify the reasons advanced to explain the ‘success’ of this technology. Three kinds of approach, which embody three ways of defining the political and social impact of CCTV, can be distinguished: surveillance studies, impact analyses and use studies. This paper discusses these works and the answers they bring to the understanding of CCTV development. It claims that micro-level case study analysis allows grasping subtly the locally observable mechanisms by which new actors can be enrolled in the device and new legitimizations are made possible.

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The role of technology in shaping CCTV surveillance practices

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Bentham, Deleuze and Beyond: An Overview of Surveillance Theories from the Panopticon to Participation

Bentham, Deleuze and Beyond: An Overview of Surveillance Theories from the Panopticon to Participation

Automation of the CCTV-mediated detection of individuals illegally carrying firearms: combining psychological and technological approaches

A prosperous ‘business’. The success of CCTV through the eyes of international literature

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