A scary site

[undergroundpanther]

Scary the additudes and hostility to freedom here.
Sorry I can't offer snips the articles are on PDF and I don't know how to cut and paste PDF stuff.



http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/index.htm

http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles2(1)/domination.pdf
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles2(1)/suspicion.pdf

[mcscajun]

1. The site itself doesn't seem too scary.

It's an academic site, mainly. Your second and third links didn't work, so I haven't been able to read the articles involved to comment on them, but I did notice articles on "State Surveillance and the Right to Privacy", "Workplace Surveillance *is* Unethical and Unfair", and other ethical discussions. I'm sure there are scary articles on there, as there will be considerable variance in content across an open academic-based site.

Excerpt from the website, asking for submission of articles:
Surveillance & Society issue 3(4) will be focusing on the question of how we, as scholars, 'do' surveillance studies. The field of surveillance studies is still in its infancy, but contributors range from subjects of social science, humanities, liberal arts and even some of the engineering sciences. Addressing methodological questions concerning the unit of analysis, appropriate epistemologies, and the overall validity of what we produce will determine the legitimacy and communicability of our work for the future. Specific issues concern (among others):

* Spatial concepts and variables: their operationalisation,
capture, representation and analysis.
* Temporal concepts and variables: how researchers can represent
social process and action whilst using a time-honoured set of tools which, by necessity 'freeze' what is being observed.
* Epistemological issues concerning our treatment of action,
structure, virtuality, identity, boundaries of the self, being and becoming
* Ethical issues in surveillance based research
* The design of surveillance based research
* The strengths and weaknesses of our own disciplinary boundaries
* The nature and role of interdisciplinarity within surveillance
studies
* Whether there is a 'normal' way to conduct surveillance based
research
* The application of particular analytical techniques and their
suitability for scenarios where we see surveillance-in-action.
* Reflexive accounts of surveillance scholars.
* The role of provocation in surveillance studies.