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Soiveillance: Self-Consciousness and the Social Network in Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop
Authors: Gazi Jeeshan
Published: July 2018

This article analyses the surveillance aesthetic of Hideaki Anno’s 1998 film Love & Pop. It is proposed that the film communicates the concept of “soiveillance”—a watching (veillance) that is of one’s self (soi). What underpins soiveillance is the paranoia associated with social surveillance (Marwick 2012), specifically the self-consciousness involved in the image sharing that constructs the virtual self of the social media user (Willett 2009). With its theme of enjo kosai—or “paid-dates” between adult males and female teenagers—Love & Pop’s communication of soiveillance further illuminates the impact of one’s gender status within the social network, and the manner in which real-world patriarchy and misogyny pass into the virtual construction of selves. The methodology used to argue these points rests on a reconfigured take on the term “scopophilia” within the study of visual media. Scopophilia, rethought as a love of vision itself, aligns with Murakami’s (2000) theory of the superflat on three key points: the acknowledgment that emerging technologies have created new image-functions and image-structures that require a broadening of our theoretical vocabulary; an atemporal approach to the reading of images, such that a late-nineties film like Anno’s can provide important insights into 21st century concerns; and a recognition of intermedial convergence, which allows us to read the activity of online video sharing as a form of narrative equivalent to the sequencing of shots within a cinematic montage.
Video Streaming and Internalized Surveillance
Authors: Talvitie-Lamberg Karoliina
Published: July 2018

This paper aims to develop knowledge about the complicated ways in which the modern individual uses surveillance (techniques) and the ways surveillance uses the individual. My observational analysis of a videostreaming community reveals the central role that surveillance plays in participating and becoming visible in an online environment. The results show that through disciplinary and lateral surveillance, participants produced context-defined I-narrations and formed themselves following the normative judgment of the environment. The same mechanism may be observed in other videostreaming social media environments and the modern social media-saturated society in general. This is an inconspicuous way to produce surveillant individualism. Contrary to the notion of exploitative participation, this study reveals the productive power of surveillance. My research suggests that disciplinary power is integrated into the everyday in online DIY environments and it creates the space and framework for communication in these environments. Surveillance practices offer empowering means for forming identities.
On the Outside Looking Out: an interview with the Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA)
Authors: Schienke Erich W. , (IAA) Institute for Applied Autonomy
Published: July 2018

This interview with members of the Institute for Applied Autonomy is a discussion of their critically intervening projects and products - projects and products that boldly dip into and out of the socio-technical landscapes that comprise contemporary surveillance systems. Their projects range from constructing robots for activists so as to avoid identification, to building websites for looking up "paths of least surveillance"; in Manhattan and London. Threaded throughout the interview is a discussion about the rise of urban surveillance and the rapid transformation of public spaces into privatized places, i.e. "mallification" syndrome.
Cageling
Authors: Uysal Özgür Özmen
Published: July 2018

A poem
PanopDecon: deconstructing, decontaminating, and decontextualizing panopticism in the postcyborg era
Authors: Mann Steve , Fung James , Federman Mark , Baccanico Gianluca
Published: July 2018

This presentation describes a series of exhibits, events, inventions, and interventions that examine, problematize, deconstruct, and critique, panopticism.
Prepaid Mobile Phone Service and the Anonymous Caller: Considering Wireless E9-1-1 in Canada.
Authors: Gow Gordon A. , Ihnat Mark
Published: July 2018

This paper reports on a recently concluded empirical study into the development of Wireless E9-1-1 (emergency service) in Canada that initially focussed on privacy concerns raised in the context of an emerging location based service (LBS) for mobile phone users. In light of existing regulatory arrangements this paper concludes that in Canada the emerging Wireless E9-1-1 system establishes a reasonable level of protection for the privacy rights of mobile phone users who choose to contact emergency services. However, an important and surprising issue was raised in the proceedings regarding the obligation of wireless service providers offering prepaid mobile phone service to obtain verifiable subscriber records from their customers. This paper provides details regarding the issue and contributes a number of points to an emerging debate concerning the right to anonymity for customers who elect to use prepaid or other services provided over commercial networks.
'A Spy in your Pocket'? The Regulation of Mobile Data in the UK.
Authors: Green Nicola , Smith Sean
Published: July 2018

The growth of mobile digital communication devices has seen a corresponding growth in the data created by users in the course of their mobile communications. The ease with which such data - including sensitive time-dependent location information - can be collected and stored raises clear data protection and concerns. The value such data offers to both law enforcement agencies and the private sector has complicated regulatory responses to such data protection concerns. This has lead to the contradictory situation in which mobile data is used by the law enforcement agencies and the private sector to identify individual users, yet this same information is not considered to be 'personal data'.
In-Between Surveillance and Spatial Protest: the Production of Space of the 'Mixed City' of Lod?
Authors: Yacobi Haim
Published: July 2018

This paper analyses the historical process during which the Israeli territory, including previously Palestinian cities, has been profoundly Judaized. More specifically, Based on Henri Lefebvre's conceptualization of the production of space, the paper focuses on the case of the 'mixed city' of Lod, accentuating the informal mechanisms of housing and infrastructure supply, the "strategic reversibility" of power relations and the struggle for identity evident in the Palestinian community's protest in this city. Theoretically, the paper highlights the ways in which social conflict is expressed through analyzing the conceived space, the perceived space and the lived space. By doing so, it reconceptualizes the act of urban resistance, and to stress the role of spatial protest as an alternative pattern of opposition vis a vis the surveillance mechanisms implemented in the city.
CCTV and (In)dividuation
Authors: Cameron Heather
Published: July 2018

This essay draws on work of Freud and Foucault to understand emerging converging aspects of visual surveillance and tracking technology. It discusses some of the general problems with video surveillance – due to its reliance on a flattened version of the visual realm, its partial view, and assumptions about human vision. It then moves on to show how CCTV has changed from the monitoring of flows to identifying individuals and functioning as the human interface for new databank applications, using Foucault's reflections on governmentality. The essay ends by detailing a controversial test of video surveillance and RFID tags which point out some new dangers for us to consider, and argues that we should resist the 'flat fantasy' offered by video surveillance.
A Comparison of the Impact of Protective and Preservative Video Surveillance on Urban Territoriality: the case of Switzerland
Authors: Klauser Francisco
Published: July 2018

This paper focuses on a comparison between two forms of video-surveillance and their consequences for the territoriality of public space users: the preservative, which aims to preserve public order and to prevent 'anti-social' behaviour; and the protective, which protect specific risk-points like buildings or objects. The fundamental difference between preservative and protective surveillance is linked to the spatial logic of its functioning, that can be deduced both from the position of the cameras and the general orientation of its view. Following Lefebvre and Raffestin, it argues that these socio-spatial relationships of social players may be considered as an inherent part of public space. In consequence, their transformation directly affects the qualities of public space. These theoretical explored are illustrated with a cartographical study of the cameras within the city centre of Geneva and a study of public sensitivity and perception of video surveillance in the Swiss city of Olten.
Zurich Main Railway Station: A Typology of Public CCTV Systems
Authors: Muller Christoph , Boos Daniel
Published: July 2018

Railway stations have become places between 'public' and 'private'. In this exploratory case study, we are looking at the CCTV system at the Zurich main station, the largest railway station in Switzerland. This railway station is used by train passengers, by customers frequenting the station's shopping area, and by persons trespassing in the station. Looking at different types of CCTV systems, we examine the motivations that have been leading to the installation of the cameras, about their functionality and their effects on passengers and customers. Based on our observations, we are going to present a typology of different uses of CCTV systems: (1) access control, (2) conduct control, (3) registering evidence, (4) flow control and the planning of deployment. As a conclusion, we will have a look at some future trends in the use of CCTV in railway stations, focussing on (a) individualization, (b) automation, and (c) commodification. In the last part of our presentation, we are going to ask about the limits of the spreading of CCTV systems in railway stations, focussing on the efficiency on one hand and on several possibilities for opposition on the other hand.
Behind the Screens: Examining Constructions of Deviance and Informal Practices among CCTV Control Room Operators in the UK
Authors: Smith Gavin J. D.
Published: July 2018

Hitherto, limited empirical research has focussed on the micro-level dynamics and social interactions forming a typical CCTV control room's everyday operational culture. As such, the 'human element' behind the monitoring of the cameras has been largely ignored in much CCTV analysis to date. Drawing upon ethnographic observation conducted within a privately funded CCTV control room, this paper questions the accuracy of a central assumption made in much of the general literature on CCTV, namely that surveillance cameras are not only controlled and monitored constantly, but also operated effectively and efficiently. A consideration of the types of person monitored, and why certain individuals attracted attention from the operatives, is also given. More specifically, and drawing on knowledge gleaned from studies of workplace culture, the article also identifies subtle forms of workplace resistance occurring in the observed control room's informal organisation. This involved strategies such as time wasting and game playing being adopted by the operators, largely in response to the effects of tiredness, boredom, derision and the difficulty of effectively monitoring up to fifteen television screens simultaneously. Indeed, the findings from the research suggested that the operatives felt alienated from their job, due to the imprisoning confines of the CCTV control room, the long hours worked, the high expectation levels placed upon them and the low pay and lack of acclamation received from their employers. Reflecting on these findings, it is concluded that, taken together, the above factors seriously undermine the effectiveness of CCTV surveillance per se.
Signage and Surveillance: Interrogating the Textual Context of CCTV in the UK
Authors: Cole Mark
Published: July 2018

The UK is one of the most surveilled societies in the World. CCTV systems prevail in both private and public space. Since 2000, a Code of Practice has required that signage is clearly deployed to advise of the existence of those systems wherever they are in use. Throughout 2002, examples of that signage were captured photographically, culminating in an exhibition of this material in October of that year. While arguing that the signage works closely in conjunction with the technological systems to which it refers, this paper focuses on this textual superstructure, using a Foucauldian approach as a means of shaping the discussion. It concludes that the signage itself has a number of possible effects. Most significantly, it argues that these texts, outwith the technological structures to which they refer, actively and substantially facilitate the 'automatic functioning of power'.
Mutual Obligation? Regulating by Supervision and Surveillance in Australian Income Support P
Authors: Parker Stephen , Fopp Rodney
Published: July 2018

Through an analysis of speeches by government ministers, documents and regulations, this article examines the Australian national government's surveillance of unemployed people through what is known as Activity Testing, and more specifically as Mutual Obligation. It seeks to merge the social policy analysis of Mutual Obligation with a surveillance perspective in order to delve deeper into the underlying nature of the policy and its implications for people who are unemployed. It does this by 1. outlining the neo-liberal political theory underlying these policies; 2. illustrating the nature and extent of surveillance of people in receipt of income support, and 3. employing Foucault's concepts of the technologies of domination and the self to highlight the controlling and coercive aspects of Mutual Obligation in achieving certain of the Government's political and policy objectives. In doing so, the analysis will make visible something of the power exerted over the disadvantaged while subject to such surveillance.
The ECHELON Trail: An Illegal Vision
Authors: Wright Steve
Published: July 2018

This article tells the story behind the uncovering of the US operated global telecommunications interceptions system now known as ECHELON. It begins with the use of fieldwork techniques in the early 1970's exploring the configuration of Britain's Post Office Towers – these were ostensibly the microwave links through which Britain's long distance telephone calls were made. This modelling process revealed a system within the system of microwave towers linked to the American Base of Menwith Hill in the North York Moors. All the key researchers were then promptly arrested, a raid by Special Branch on the author's university at Lancaster ensued and later a show trail for the other main researchers, most notably Duncan Campbell. Eventually in 1988, Duncan wrote up the ECHELON story, which for its time was an incredible piece of detective work using materials lifted from waste bins by the women activists campaigning around the Menwith Hill Base. Little notice was taken until 1997 when an obscure book by Nicky Hager, Secret Power explained the role and function of ECHELON in more depth. The author represented these findings in a policy report to the European Parliament on the technology of political control that led to a process of political debate and disagreement of the ethics of such a system which continues even today.
Para-Sights: Multiplied Perspectives on Surveillance Research in Art Educational Spaces
Authors: Sweeny Robert W.
Published: July 2018

In this paper the author outlines multiple approaches regarding surveillance research in the visual arts and art education. The notion of the parasite is used to diagram power relationships that are addressed by visual artists and activists engaged with the mechanisms of both surveillance and dataveillance. These parasitic practices are then compared with actions from art educational spaces, allowing for the surveillance that is inherent to pedagogy to be analyzed and critiqued.
Little England? The rise of open-street Closed-Circuit Television surveillance in Canada
Authors: Walby Kevin
Published: July 2018

Social monitoring is often explained in terms of top-down or hierarchal forms of power, which is reflected in the reliance on neo-Marxist and disciplinary society analytical frameworks in contemporary studies of open-street closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance. Established surveillance theories cannot account for instances when citizens themselves seek out regulatory measures in their own communities. Community schemes can precede and inform police policy. Drawing from developments in the sociology of governance, I examine media coverage, government document and questionnaire data regarding the rise of open-street CCTV schemes in Canadian cities, demonstrating empirically how regulation through CCTV surveillance can be generated from above (e.g. police, state), the middle (e.g. business entrepreneurs), and below (e.g. moral entrepreneurs and civic governance). Offering four suppositions that act as a pragmatic framework for understanding the rise of open-street CCTV in Canada, this article is a partial corrective to the reigning theoretical explanations regarding how regulatory projects like open-street CCTV are generated.
The impact of institutional surveillance technologies on student behaviour
Authors: Dawson Shane
Published: July 2018

Contemporary education institutions are increasingly investing fiscal and human resources to further develop their online infrastructure in order to enhance flexible learning options and the overall student learning experience. Coinciding with the implementation of these technologies has been the centralisation of data and the emergence of online activities that have afforded the capacity for more intimate modes of surveillance by both the institution and education practitioner. This study offers an initial investigation into the impact of such modes of surveillance on student behaviours. Both internal and external students surveyed indicated that their browsing behaviours, the range of topics discussed and the writing style of their contributions made to asynchronous discussion forums are influenced by the degree to which such activities are perceived to be surveyed by both the institution and teaching staff. The analyses deriving from this data are framed within Foucault's works on surveillance and self governance. This paper discusses the implications of this new mode of governance for learning and teaching and suggests areas of further investigations.
Privacy Outside the Castle: Surveillance Technologies and Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in Canadian Judicial Reasoning
Authors: Boa Krista
Published: July 2018

In recent years U.S. police have been given greater surveillance powers in response to perceived threats from crime, drugs, and terrorism. Several legal and criminal events have facilitated a reevaluation of the balance between police surveillance authority and civil privacy protection. In the post-9/11 era, changes in federal law, court interpretation of privacy safeguards, and technological advances have expanded the circumstances and methods by which the police may engage in surveillance of civil activities. This paper examines the factors contributing to the escalation in police surveillance and its effects on privacy rights and civil life. The analysis suggests that increasing police surveillance has diminished individual privacy protections and impacted aspects of civil life.
The Politics of Paranoia: paranoid positioning and conspiratorial narratives in the surveillance society
Authors: Harper David
Published: July 2018

The notion of paranoia is often implicitly reproduced in the work of surveillance researchers. However, in this article I will argue that this notion needs to be interrogated since current conceptions of paranoia are inherently dualistic: viewing paranoia solely at an individual or intra-psychic level; or, alternatively solely at a societal level. Inevitably, either perspective is limited. Here I will attempt to break down this dichotomy by, firstly, drawing on the notion of discursive positioning to: analyse the cultural discourses which "produce" paranoia; examine how subjects (i.e. individuals, communities, societies etc.) become positioned by others as paranoid; and explore the effects of such positioning. Secondly, I will investigate the discursive positions through which people may position themselves as paranoid and describe some of the effects of such positioning. I conclude by drawing out some implications of a more nuanced view of paranoia for the field of surveillance studies.
Stars of CCTV? How the Home Office wasted millions - a radical 'Treasury/Audit Commission' view
Authors: Groombridge Nic
Published: July 2018

This paper looks back on earlier pieces on CCTV in Britain by Groombridge and Murji and argues that the identified failures of CCTV, in terms of effectiveness and value-for money, have been consistently ignored both at the time and in more recent government evaluations.
‘Lost’ Surveillance Studies: A critical review of French work on CCTV
Authors: Klauser Francisco R
Published: July 2018

In recent years, the rapidly developing field of ‘surveillance studies’ has sparked a remarkable and revealing body of research, which has led to repeated claims to recognise ‘surveillance studies’ as a cross-disciplinary field of research in its own right. However, the almost exclusive reliance of these independency claims upon Anglophone references raises a series of important questions: Must we conclude that other linguistic traditions in surveillance studies do not exist at all, or are we to assume that such studies are heading in a broadly similar direction as their English counterpart?In order to address these questions, the paper suggests engaging with ‘lost’ CCTV studies published in French academia. It succinctly discusses three specificities of the French CCTV context – the legal regulation of CCTV through the 1995 ‘Loi Pasqua’, the specialised economic journal ‘En toute sécurité’ and the quasi absence of publicly mandated statistical evaluations of open street CCTV systems – thus providing a reading of how they are reflected in the existing CCTV literature. From an analytical standpoint, this approach provides an exploratory framework not only for investigating the key elements that French studies about CCTV can add to the relevant Anglophone literature, but also for examining the broader processes of knowledge generation about surveillance issues and on how these may depend on particular national characteristics.
Does my bum look big in this? Reconsidering anorexia nervosa within the culture context of 20th century Australia
Authors: Day Cheryl
Published: July 2018

Anorexia Nervosa is a mental health issue that has a history over many centuries, but has relatively recently been identified as a ‘real’ mental illness. A condition that predominantly afflicts young, middle class women it had long been subsumed among the ‘natural weaknesses’ of women, not unlike the manner in which ‘Hysteria’ was diagnosed within the Freudian understanding of women’s health. However, since the 1970s, and especially with the deaths of some high profile young women it has undergone a reassessment. While clinical understandings of Anorexia Nervosa remain contentious, there is an increasing recognition that the condition is also grounded within specific cultural understandings. The article presents a brief historical overview of the construction of ‘self-starvation’ as applied to ‘fasting saints’ and to modern anorexic women. However, the major focus of the paper is an examination of the cultural situation as exemplified in contemporary Australia. Drawing on the Foucaudian notions of self surveillance the article suggests that TV programs can be used as a vehicle for modern day ‘self surveillance ’and as guidelines for the construction of self.  Briefly, TV programs, especially so called ‘reality TV,’ portray a mirror image of how we as consumers should behave. The programs I have chosen to highlight are the phenomenally popular cooking shows that are aired daily on Australian TV screens. Through an examination of the social meanings constructed around food with the TV programs as a primary carrier of these cultural references, the article seeks to address some of the contradictions with other images presented in different but contemporaneous media. While this can never be a definitive explanation of all anorectic behavior, the paper examines the images of womanhood as presented by these programs. These ‘competent and enthusiastic cooks’ are contrasted with the slim, athletic ideal as portrayed in the fashion magazines and many other  ‘lifestyle’ TV programs such as holiday shows.
Surveillance: Citizens and the State
Authors: Franko Aas Katja
Published: July 2018

In February 2009 the House of Lords Constitutional Committee in the United Kingdom published the report Surveillance: Citizens and the State. Some have hailed this as a landmark document. The following is one of four commentaries that the editors of Surveillance & Society solicited in response to the report.
Ottawa’s National Capital Commission Conservation Officers and the Policing of Public Park Sex
Authors: Walby Kevin
Published: July 2018

The National Capital Commission (NCC) is an organization responsible for so-called ‘beautification’ and land development around Canada’s capital city, Ottawa. This paper examines surveillance of public sex by NCC conservation officers in Ottawa’s parks. Conceptualizing NCC conservation officer work as policing, I analyze conservation officer occurrence reports obtained through federal-level access to information requests to examine how public male with male sexual activity is problematized and criminalized. This case study of NCC conservation officer work demonstrates how notions of so-called ‘appropriate’ sexuality and space usage can be shaped and reinforced through policing and surveillance conducted by governance agents who have peace officer status. Conservation officers have been excluded from studies of policing because of a bias towards conventional municipal officers in the policing literature as well as the marginal status of specialized enforcement agents. Contributing to the literature on policing of public sex, my analysis of conservation officer occurrence reports suggests that even when bylaws and park regulations concerning erotic acts are written in gender-neutral and innocuous language, these bylaws are enforced in ways that discriminate against public homoeroticism. Though NCC officer policing is integral to attempts at purifying urban space, because of their mandate to promote the spirit of Canada in the lands surrounding Ottawa I argue that sexuality is also a matter of national character for the NCC.
Random Digit Darling: The Telephone Turn in the American Social and Behavioral Sciences
Authors: Beaton Brian
Published: July 2018

This experimental essay traces the rise of phone-based data collection within the American social and behavioral sciences over the last third of the twentieth century. Exploring aural cultures of surveillance and the eroticization of abstract data, the essay aims to disrupt the privileged status granted to optics within the field of Surveillance Studies-- particularly when it comes to questions of sex and sexualization. Written in the style of the scripts commonly used when conducting phone-based research, the essay positions you (the reader) as a staff interviewer collecting data for a fictional present-day study regarding modern sex practices. Today, the focus of your study is the curious case of 'databaters': a term used for the male masturbators who, as a means to elicit intimate information from unsuspecting call recipients, pretend to be social and behavioral scientists conducting exactly this sort of phone-based research. By the mid-1970s, databaters became one of the most common types of problem calls reported by American women. While the background information provided within your script might also reveal a persistent tradition of intimate transgressions within 'real' phone-based social and behavioral science, any such effect is entirely inadvertent.
Situated Surveillance: an ethnographic study of fisheries inspection in Denmark
Authors: Gad Christopher , Lauritsen Peter
Published: July 2018

The field of surveillance studies has gained momentum and with that broadened its empirical gaze to include an increasing number of practices. Yet, the theoretical understanding of surveillance has not developed at the same pace.In this article two dominating metaphors, Big Brother and the panopticon, are critically discussed, and it is argued that fresh theoretical and methodological resources are needed. Using the work of Haraway and Latour the article develops an understanding of surveillance as a situated activity. This is done through an ethnographic study of the Danish Fisheries Inspection. “Situated surveillance” contains the important insight that it is inexpedient to define surveillance in general term and “in advance”. What surveillance is must be studied empirically. When interpreted as “situated” surveillance is never total, as anticipated in Big Brother and the panopticon, but limited and partial. Furthermore, surveillance is a result of work involving exertion, friction and resistance. Finally, the distinction between the observer and the observed is blurred, and surveillance becomes not only a matter of control but also of e.g. care.
Are schools panoptic?
Authors: Gallagher Micheal
Published: July 2018

Schools are often understood by social researchers as panoptic spaces, where power is exercised through constant surveillance and monitoring. In this paper, I use Foucault’s notorious account of the Panopticon as a point of departure for a detailed empirical investigation of the specificities of surveillance in schools. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in a primary school, I argue that how surveillance actually operated in this context diverged from the panoptic programme in two crucial ways: surveillance was (i) discontinuous rather than total, and therefore open to resistance and evasion, and (ii) exercised through sound and hearing as much as through vision.
‘You don’t have to be watched to make your toast’: Surveillance and Food Practices within Residential Care
Authors: McIntosh Ian , Punch Samantha , Dorrer Nika , Emond Ruth
Published: July 2018

This paper explores forms of surveillance within residential care homes for young people. It is argued that surveillance is a crucial aspect of care and this can be experienced as both negative and positive by children and staff. In particular the research was concerned with how forms of control and monitoring are conducted in relation to food and food practices. Relations of power and resistance within the context of a care home are routinely played out and through food. The paper illustrates the ways in which children variously resist and accept regulation and control in relation to food. It also considers the manner in which staff try to implement an ambience and ethos within the care home that is not overtly institutional yet allows them to provide care for the children. In order to achieve this, often contested conceptions of ‘family’ and ‘home’ are drawn upon and operationalised through food related practices and interactions. Three residential care homes for children in central Scotland were studied using a mix of interviewing and ethnographic techniques.
The Surveillant Simulation of War: Entertainment and Surveillance in the 21st Century
Authors: Cousineau Matthew
Published: July 2018

This paper pulls together some strands in Surveillance Studies to make a case for the analytical advantages of a future direction. Conceptualizing surveillance as entertainment helps sensitize Surveillance Studies to emerging patterns of surveillance in the relationship between the military-industrial complex and entertainment. I describe four examples of this, which include both video game simulations of surveillance as well as actual military surveillance technologies and practices. Army developed video games and simulators designed to recruit, along with unmanned aerial vehicles and sports broadcasting technologies provide contemporary examples of the blurring boundaries between civilians and soldiers, war and entertainment, and work and play. Focusing on surveillance as entertainment, I suggest, furnishes us with several analytical advantages that help make sense of the complex global surveillance realities of the 21st century.
The Wall, the Window and the Alcove: Visualizing Privacy
Authors: Liu Catherine
Published: July 2018

This papers is an investigation of metaphors and images of walls, most recently made of fire and of code. By extension, the interruption or disruption of the wall, whether as light-giving window or shelter-providing alcove give conceptual form and shape to the theoretical/historical cluster of concepts that support notions of security and autonomy have become indispensable to explorations of the value of privacy and private life. In presenting a series of imaginary spaces where private and public spheres were thought to converge and/or collide, I hope to show that transparency as a political value defended by liberal democracies functions on the basis of a powerful visual and fundamentally spatial metaphor: the window. Privacy is penetrated and protected on the other hand by the architectural construction of an alcove. Cultural relativism does not allow us to avoid the legal, political and social problems that individuals and lawmakers are confronting nations, societies and individuals in the wake of data gathering technologies (Humphreys 2011). The window and the alcove are simple, even primitive elements of built environments, but they are figures for porosity and protection upon which we might be able to construct analogical and theoretical relationships between different times and different cultures.
How far can child surveillance go?: Assessing the parental perceptions of an RFID child monitoring system in Japan
Authors: Ema Arisa , Fujigaki Yuko
Published: July 2018

There have recently been increasing numbers of studies on ubiquitous computing to build pervasive communication infrastructures. In Japan, a national strategy to become a ubiquitous network society in which anyone can easily access and use a network any time, anywhere and from any appliance, has been promoted for the sake of social security. A child monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID) is one example of a security system accepted by Japanese parents since 2004; the system informs parents of the exact time their child enters and leaves the school gate. Along with the technical development of RFID, the government and ubiquitous computing industries are suggesting various advanced monitoring systems to promote a ubiquitous network society. However, tagging people with an RFID always raises the controversy about the trade-off between security and privacy. In this article, by investigating parental perceptions of advanced child monitoring systems as an example, we aim to suggest an appropriate way to introduce ubiquitous security systems to the public. The findings indicate not only the need to consider the technical and regulatory frameworks, but also that relationships with actual users are essential for building ubiquitous security systems.
Borderlines. Surveillance, Identification and Artistic Explorations along European Borders.
Authors: Gschrey Raul
Published: July 2018

Borderlines are increasingly hard to grasp they no longer follow the territorial outlines of nation states and are developing into mobile interlinked structures. The borderlines experience an increasing automation, reach into our cities, along the spaces of transit and, with the help of biometric techniques, zoom in on our bodies. These structures of inclusion and exclusion, of surveillance and control have different impacts on people, according to their status and nationality. This altered state of our borders and its appearance in artistic and academic positions will be discussed. This goes along with an analysis of theories and practices of surveillance and control in relation to the restriction of movement and the construction of spaces. The focus lies on irregular migration and movement in the European arena. Most of the works that are presented were part of the exhibition “grenzlinien” (borderlines) which was shown in Mainz and Frankfurt/Main, Germany in 2010 and which will be completed by a publication and further shows in 2011/12.
Resistance against Cyber-Surveillance within Social Movements and how Surveillance Adapts
Authors: Leistert Oliver
Published: July 2018

Activists around the world have developed practices and are taking distinct measures to resist cyber-surveillance. These range from using code words and taking out mobile phone batteries during meetings to the use of privacy enhancing technologies. This article discusses such measures by providing interviews with activists from a variety of countries, as well as by analyzing documents from German law enforcement agencies in a recent case against activists. These documents reveal that the meta-data produced via mobile telephony is at least as important for law enforcement as the content of the calls. Furthermore, if there is not enough meta-data, law enforcement will produce it to get to know the whereabouts of activists. This article thus argues that a mutual relationship between resistance and surveillance unfolds as one side reacts to the practices of the other: as soon as activists advance in the protection of their contents of telecommunication, the surveilling parties concentrate on meta-data to explore the whereabouts of their targets. To counter this threat only the discontinuation of mobile phone use has been articulated.
Lipossarcoma do Cordão Espermático
Authors: Catarino Raquel , Cardoso André , Ferreira Carlos , Pereira Diogo , Correia Tiago , Cerqueira Manuel , Carmo Reis Frederico , Costa Paulo , Almeida Rocha , Prisco Rui
Published: July 2018

Introdução: O lipossarcoma do cordão espermático é uma doença rara, com poucos casos descritos. Apresentamos dois casos clínicos de doentes com lipossarcoma do cordão espermático.

Caso Clínico: Caso 1: Doente de 76 anos, avaliado por uma massa inguinal esquerda indolor. O estudo imagiológico evidenciou uma massa sólida, com cerca de 38 x 31 cm na região inguinal esquerda. Caso 2: Doente de 55 anos, avaliado por uma massa escrotal esquerda indolor. Imagiologicamente apresentava lesão sólida com 28 x 27 cm, sugestiva de neoformação na dependência do epidídimo esquerdo. Ambos os doentes foram submetidos a orquidectomia radical com excisão local alargada. O exame histopatológico revelou lipossarcoma nas duas situações, tendo sido efetuado tratamento complementar com radioterapia adjuvante. No seguimento efetuado, oito anos no caso 1 e quatro anos no caso 2, não ocorreu recidiva neoformativa locorregional ou à distância.

Conclusão: O tratamento recomendado do lipossarcoma do cordão espermático é a orquidectomia radical com excisão local alargada. A radioterapia adjuvante reduz o número de recorrências locorregionais e torna-se necessário um período longo de seguimento destes doentes, dada a elevada probabilidade de recorrência.
Risk Factors and Chemical Composition of Urinary Stones in the Azorean Population (São Miguel Island - Portugal): A Preliminary Study
Authors: Silva Linhares Diana Paula , Ventura Garcia Patricia , Goulart Sara , Sebastião Carlos , Mota Preto Pedro , Dos Santos Rodrigues Armindo
Published: July 2018

Introduction: Urinary stone disease is one of the most common disorders of the urinary tract. However, the main risk factors and chemical composition of urinary stones in the population of the Azores are unknown. The objective of this study was to define the most important factors associated with the formation of urinary calculi, investigating eating habits, family history and chemical composition of the calculi in the population of the Azores.

Methods: The data were collected from 46 patients of the Hospital do Divino Espirito Santo and 48 healthy volunteers. A questionnaire was recorded on the medical and family history of the participants and on their life habits. The chemical composition of the calculi was evaluated by ICP-MS.

Results: It was observed that the study group has a higher prevalence of diabetes and cases of urinary calculi in the family compared to the reference group. A positive correlation was found between calcium in the stones and the contents of sodium, magnesium, zinc, molybdenum and strontium.

Conclusion: This study reveals that family history, diabetes and water consumption play an important role in the development of urinary calculi in the population of the Azores. The chemical content of the stones should also be considered since these data could help the medical community to understand the causes of urinary stone formation and adapt the medication and preventive measures to the patient and to the type of kidney stone produced.
Nefrectomia Parcial Robótica de Tumor Endofítico: Técnica e Resultado
Authors: Graça Bruno , Formoso Rui , Lourenço Miguel , Maes Kris
Published: July 2018

A cirurgia robótica permite a realização de cirurgia renal complexa, nomeadamente oncológica, com segurança e resultados no mínimo equivalentes às actuais vias disponíveis. Descreve-se a realização de uma nefrectomia parcial robótica de um tumor endofítico com apoio ecográfico intra-operatório e resultado ao 10º mês de seguimento.
EVALUATION OF THE RELEASE OF ASCORBIC ACID IN PROLONGED-RELEASE TABLETS BY IN VITRO DISSOLUTION TESTS
Authors: Junior E. Damasceno , DE Almeida J. M. F. , Silva I. N. , Silva M. S. B. , Fernandes N. S.
Published: July 2018

In vitro dissolution tests are an extremely important tool in the development and quality control of drugs, making it possible to evaluate the performance or efficiency of the pharmaceutical form in releasing the active substance through the amount dissolved in the dissolution medium when the product is subjected to specific equipment. In this sense, the main objective of the present study was to evaluate the release of ascorbic acid in prolonged release commercial vitamin C tablets by dissolution tests. Ascorbic acid and drugs of two different brands were characterized using the techniques of Molecular Absorption Spectroscopy in the Region of Infrared (IR), Thermogravimetry/Derived Thermogravimetry (TG/DTG) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). The in vitro dissolution tests were performed in a dissolver with a paddle apparatus at a temperature of 37°C (± 0.5°C), employing 900 mL of ultrapure water as the dissolution medium and a stirring speed of 50 rpm. The ascorbic acid dissolved in the aliquots of dissolution media obtained during the tests were quantified using the UV-Vis Molecular Absorption Spectroscopy technique. From the dissolution profiles, it was observed that the formulations of both brands promoted a prolonged release of ascorbic acid. The brand drug A dissolved about 67% of the active principle in about 360 minutes. The brand drug B, however, dissolved about 72% at the same dissolution time. Release kinetics was evaluated using kinetic models such as order zero, first order and Higuchi. The model that best fit the experimental data was that of Higuchi.
ANALISIS UKURAN PARTIKEL SILIKA HASIL EKSTRAKSI DARI BATU PADAS ASAL KABUPATEN KETAPANG KALIMANTAN BARAT
Authors: Sasri Risya , Nurlina Nurlina , Destiarti Lia , Syahbanu Intan
Published: July 2018

Analysis of particle size of silica was extracted from rocks from Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan based on characterization using scanning electron microscope (SEM) have been carried out. The analysis was performed to determine the particle size change in extraction silica without and with activation using acid solution. SEM image processing was performed on a 10 μm scale at 350x magnification through the image-J software to determine the particle size distribution. The results of the analysis showed that the area and diameter of the silica particle extracted from rocks were 3,935 μm2 and 3,147 μm (without activation) and 4,28 μm2 and 3,267 μm (activated) respectively.
O comentário esportivo no rádio de Porto Alegre: uma proposta de periodização histórica
Authors: Guimarães Carlos Gustavo , Ferraretto Luiz Artur
Published: July 2018

Apresenta uma proposta de periodização histórica do comentário esportivo no rádio de Porto Alegre, baseando-se em parâmetros para este tipo de estudo propostos por Agnes Heller (1997). Considera para tanto, como pontos de corte, as relações do comentário esportivo com os impactos das transformações tecnológicas sob a vigência de mudanças no próprio sistema capitalista. Como base, ampara-se, de modo geral, na economia política da comunicação (MOSCO, 1996), considerando as alterações que levam ao surgimento, na contemporaneidade, de uma fase da multiplicidade da oferta (BRITTOS, jul.-dez. 2002), e, especificamente, em reflexões a respeito do rádio dentro deste referencial teórico (FERRARETTO; KISCHINHEVSKY, 2007). Partindo de uma revisão dos dados históricos, busca construir demarcações, delineando a trajetória do comentário esportivo radiofônico na capital do Rio Grande do Sul.
Considerações teórico-metodológicas sobre a história do campo da Economia Política da Comunicação e da Cultura.
Authors: Bolaño César Ricardo Siqueira
Published: July 2018

O objetivo deste texto é demarcar alguns elementos teóricos para o estudo da história da Economia Política da Comunicação e da Cultura (EPC) brasileira, entendida como campo científico, sem deixar de levar em consideração a sua inserção no campo da Comunicação. Depois de uma discussão sobre temas de história e epistemologia do campo, é apresentado um sumário relativo ao problema da periodização do objeto mais tradicional da EPC brasileira, o mercado de televisão.
Rádio e a Memória do Cotidiano
Authors: Del Bianco Nelia Rodrigues
Published: July 2018

A partir da compreensão que a memória é uma construção social, produzida pelos homens em suas relações sociais e experiências vividas (HALBWACHS, 1990), o artigo aborda como o rádio participa da vida cotidiana e colabora para a construção de sentidos na interação entre  ouvintes e comunicadores, por meio da análise de conteúdo de comentários dos ouvintes de quatro emissoras populares brasileira registrados em fanpages no Facebook. Os comentários revelam histórias de vida tecidas nas relações de afeto, amizade entre ouvintes e o espaço radiofônico. Constata que a reiteração dessa prática comunicacional é parte da construção de laços sociais, sentimento de pertencimento e de coesão garantida pelos quadros sociais da memória coletiva. É um vinculo que se estabelece a partir tradição da cultura oral que tem sido capaz de suscitar efeitos mesmo em tempos de internet móvel e a interação das redes sociais.
(Dis)funções da Publicidade e da Propaganda nos campos social, político e ambiental
Authors: Machado Maria Berenice
Published: July 2018

(Dis) funções
Ética para un nuevo horizonte tecnológico ante los límites del humanismo latino
Authors: Porcel Dieste David
Published: July 2018

El presente artículo pretende, en primer lugar, evidenciar los límites de la visión instrumental de la técnica para una comprensión integradora del fenómeno técnico. Ante la amenaza que supone para el individuo el proceso creciente de tecnificación, que acaba relegando al ser humano a la zona del instrumento, existen indicios de que la pedagogía orientada al aprendizaje de «cómo hacer un buen uso de la técnica», amparada en la tradición humanista y fundamentada en una visión instrumental, no basta para hacer que el hombre recupere la posición de sujeto y conductor del poder técnico. Por ello, en segundo lugar, y sirviéndonos del pensamiento de Martin Heidegger y Ernst Jünger, asentamos las bases para un nuevo marco regulativo desde el que repensar lo técnico y proveer al ser humano de estrategias que le permitan restablecer su relación con la técnica.