An immense and unexpected field of action: webcams, surveillance and everyday life

Authors :: Wise, Macgregor J.
Source :: Cultural Studies. March-May, 2004, Vol. 18 Issue 2-3, 424-442
Publication Year :: 2004
Abstract: The role of large number of web cameras connected to the Internet as a means of surveillance and control of everyday life is discussed. It is reported that the webcams reveal aspects of everyday life through senses of thisness, duree, awareness, embodiment, and care as everyday life is caught up in and constituted by intertwined networks of care and control.

Subjects :: Surveillance equipment -- Analysis
Life skills
Computer video camera
Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Sociology and social work

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