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Tag archive for ‘Surveillance Culture’

“Captive TV:” A New Reality Format

“Captive TV:” A New Reality Format

by: John Corner / University of Liverpool
What does the Royal Navy’s recent hostage crisis in Iran say about television’s involvement in the conduct of war and conflict?

To Watch a Predator

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

Do the suspects of Dateline: To Catch a Predator have any right to privacy, or can they be freely featured as part of the flow of network television?

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What a Long, Bad Trip It’s Been

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
The voyeurism and surveillance of MTV’s One Bad Trip become inverted after the first season, leaving audiences to wonder; who’s watching, and who’s performing?

Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: The Supermarket

by: Dan Leopard / University of Southern California
Dan Leopard considers the screens we ignore as we shop for food.