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Opening the Black Box - The Work of Watching (Paperback)
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Opening the Black Box - The Work of Watching (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if
increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism. They symbolize the
faith that spatial authorities place in technical interventions for
the treatment of social problems. CCTV was principally introduced
to sterilize municipalities, to govern conducts and to protect
properties. Vast expenditure has been committed to these
technologies without a clear sense of how precisely they influence
things. CCTV cameras might appear inanimate, but Opening the Black
Box shows them to be vital mediums within relational circulations
of supervision. The book principally excavates the social relations
entwining the everyday application of CCTV. It takes the reader on
a journey from living beneath the camera, to working behind the
lens. Attention focuses on the labour exerted by camera operators
as they source and process distanced spectacles. These workers are
paid to scan monitor screens in search of disorderly vistas,
visualizing stimuli according to its perceived riskiness and/or
allurement. But the projection of this gaze can draw an unsettling
reflection. It can mean enduring behavioural extremities as an
impotent witness. It can also entail making spontaneous decisions
that determine the course of justice. Opening the Black Box,
therefore, contemplates the seductive and traumatic dimensions of
monitoring telemediated 'riskscapes' through the prism of camera
circuitry. It probes the positioning of camera operators as
'vicarious' custodians of a precarious social order and engages
their subjective experiences. It reveals the work of watching to be
an ambiguous practice: as much about managing external disturbances
on the street as managing internal disruptions in the self.
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