Overview

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book brings together ethnographic work in Europe, China and the US to explore the changes wrought by the explosion of digital monitoring across the world. It proposes that surveillance is now mediating the very rhythms of life - a shift from Big Brother to Big Mother.

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Author:   Vita Peacock (King’s College London) ,  Mikkel Kenni Bruun (King’s College London) ,  Claire Elisabeth Dungey (King’s College London) ,  Matan Shapiro (King’s College London)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529246520

ISBN 10:   1529246520
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Rhythm and Vigilance - Vita Peacock Part 1: Care and Wellbeing 2. Tinkering with Time and Technologies in Dementia Care - Astrid Meyer, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard, Anders Albrechtslund 3. “I Don’t Have Time to Watch Everybody”: Location-based Monitoring, Timescapes and Family Life in Germany - Claire Dungey 4. Watching Our Selves: Digital Health and Self-Monitoring in Britain - Mikkel Kenni Bruun Part 2: Real-Time Monitoring 5. Time Work and Social Space Among Delivery App Riders in Malta and Denmark - Kalle Kusk 6. Uncertain Times: Citizen App and the Temporalities of Personalised Security in New York City - Alice Riddell 7. Synchronising Sea Rescue: Space-Eye and the Satellite Monitoring of Refugees in the Mediterranean - Andreas Stroiber 8. Small-act Surveillance: Health Code Rituals During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Xiamen, China - Karolina Kupinska Part 3: Systems Past and Present 9. Privacy as Unfolding: German Netzpolitik and the Legacy of Colonial Registration - Vita Peacock 10. Playtime: Monitoring Swindlers in Non-Fungible Token Sociality - Matan Shapiro 11. Growth’s Imagination: Start-ups and the Cruel Intimacy of the Internet’s Business Model - Lake Polan 12. Afterword - Sun-Ha Hong

Reviews

“This innovative edited collection is a masterful exploration in the role of ethnography in comprehending the intersection between rhythms of life, temporal opacity and digital surveillance in contemporary life.” Atreyee Sen, University of Copenhagen “A fascinating collection where the juxtaposition of such diverse and intriguing instances linking surveillance and temporality demonstrates how much these significant issues permeate contemporary life.” Daniel Miller, University College London

Author Information

Vita Peacock is Research Associate at King's College London and Principal Investigator on the Surveillance and Moral Community project, funded by the European Research Council. Mikkel Kenni Bruun is Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London. Claire Dungey is Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London. Matan Shapiro is Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London.

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