[Commlist] New Book - Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing

New book /Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing/, 
published by Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield. The book traces the 
relationship between certainty in the universality and accuracy of 
photographic and videographic images and their use in governing.


Visibility and Control
Cameras and Certainty in Governing
Jeff Heydon

Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing addresses the 
ways in which camera-produced images are used to support governmental 
authority. The text begins by examining some of the basic levels at 
which the body interacts with media, and then expands the scope of the 
analysis to consider the use of CCTV in urban environments and how that 
affects the experience of space. This shows how the determination of the 
subject and the observer is affected by interaction with and exposure to 
images produced by cameras. The relationship between the body and media, 
between media and the determination of space and how media is used to 
determine the nature of deviance in contemporary Western culture are 
evaluated as a means of establishing and maintaining authority through 
images. Scholars of media theory, surveillance studies, and the social 
sciences will find this book particularly interesting.


Lexington Books
Pages: 242 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-7936-1817-7 • Hardback • June 2021 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-7936-1818-4 • eBook • June 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Language 
Arts & Disciplines / General, Language Arts & Disciplines / Editing & 
Proofreading, Law / General, Social Science / Media Studies, Social 
Science / Law and Society

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Section I: The Image of Evidence

Introduction: The ‘I’, the Eye, and the Screen

1. The History of CCTV in Great Britain and Canada

2. Theoretical Elements of Government Surveillance

3. CCTV and the Court System

4. Theoretical Elements of CCTV As a Media Format

6. The Certainty in Images

Section II: The Image As a Component of Governing

7. Governmentality and the CCTV Image

8. Visibility and Control

9. The Performance of Governing

10. Practices and the Distancing of Government From the Population

11. Camera Surveillance As an Exercise of Power

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author

If interested, please follow this link to the publisher's website: 
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793618177?cat=8S21COM




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