Wellington Cançado Federal University of Minais Gerais, Brazil inhame@hotmail.com Renata Marquez Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil renamarquez@gmail.com This film is accompanied by an essay, Myopia Index @ http://www.surveillance-and-society.orgGlobal Safari (Powered by Google) If The Eames’ Powers of Ten was a visual fable about scientific optimism and the consequences of changes in scale, Google Earth is an immersive demo on the spreading of technology and the exponential dismantlin...
Knoetze, Jan and Brent Meistre (2009) Interogating Surveilance: The 50-Minute Hour. Surveillance & Society 7(1). http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/208 Psychological assessment, as conventionally understood, forms part of a tradition of investigative practice in psychology. The intake interview furthermore forms the cornerstone of this practice. The practice of psychology is often treated as though it consists only of logical and technical operations per...
This film illustrates an early example of technologically-mediated visual surveillance: the use of cine cameras by the British police in 1935 in the English town of Chesterfield in an operation to crack down on illegal street betting. The film accompanies an article by Chris Williams in Surveillance & Society 6(1) which explains what was going on and why...
