The aim of this dissertation is to explore public health surveillance from a surveillance studies perspective. The public health system in Ontario, Canada, provides an ideal setting for such exploration, especially because of initiatives that have been undertaken in the wake of the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Post-SARS, local public health practice in Ontario has been increasingly overtaken by a system-wide imperative that seeks to transform surveillance through investment in large-scale, information technology (IT). By critiquing the dominant conception of information in social scientific, public health and medical care discourse, and by exploring the increasing integration of large-scale IT into public health surveillance practice, this dissertation considers the uncertain trade-offs involved in the contemporary movement towards large-scale, IT-mediated public health surveillance systems. The theoretical framework that guides this line of inquiry emerges out of a Deleuzian-Latourian tradition in surveillance studies. This framework foregrounds the material assemblages, the network of people, machines, microbes, maladies, organizations, and so on, that make public health surveillance possible. Material assemblages tend to be submerged from view, even marginalized, by large-scale, IT-mediated surveillance systems. Such systems strive to immaterialize information. They are organized according to an immaterial conception of information. This arrangement fosters the marginalization of the material dimensions of information. In order to empirically specify the heterogeneity of the marginalized material assemblages that make public health surveillance possible, 64 semi-structured, open-ended interviews were conducted with public health professionals and patients. The main findings of this dissertation are explained using the example of communicable-disease surveillance, and particularly HIV/AIDS surveillance. These findings highlight the systemic nature of marginalization that accompanies the increasing automation of public health surveillance. They suggest the need to question whether large-scale, IT-mediated surveillance is optimally configured, not merely for the challenges posed by disease, but also for the broader provision of public health services. / Thesis (Ph.D, Sociology) -- Queen's University, 2009-01-29 15:28:27.326

In my dissertation I will deal with the issue of surveillance, which is applied in the area of marketing, consumption and in connection with that in advertising. I will concentrate mainly on the current age and therefore on the electronic surveillance, so the history of the surveillance studies will not be dealt with in this thesis in more detail. The first part of the thesis will be theoretical focusing on the main theses and theories of the current surveillance authors, especially the issues of electronic surveillance. The next part of this thesis will focus on surveillance and surveillance techniques in marketing and consumption. In this part I will also build on the theories of contemporary authors discussing the surveillance topic in the commercial sphere, but I will try to complement the theoretical introduction of the issue with the specific functioning of this phenomenon in practice. The main aim of this thesis will mainly be an overview and comprehensive illumination of surveillance and control issues focusing on the field of marketing and consumption and also mapping its operation in practice. In this part, I will focus on the issue of electronic surveillance in terms of marketing strategies focusing on the application of surveillance on the Internet and particulary on social networks. I...

Dans le cadre de ce travail, nous nous intéressons à la surveillance, que nous définissons, suivant les travaux de G.T. Marx, comme étant « l’examen d’individus, de groupes et de contextes grâce à l’usage de moyens techniques pour extraire ou créer de l’information » (Marx, 2015, p. 375, traduit dans Castagnino, 2018, p. 23). La surveillance contemporaine fait l’objet d’une attention particulière en ce qu’une « expansion capitale et une intensification de la surveillance dans presque toutes les sphères institutionnelles de notre existence » (Ball et al., 2012, p. 1, traduit dans Castagnino, pp. 18-19) caractériseraient notre époque. Face à cela, le courant des surveillance studies a vu le jour, afin de dévoiler ces pratiques de surveillance qui, selon eux, sont de nature à favoriser les discriminations, les exclusions, et bien d’autres injustices (Castagnino, 2018). Ce courant s’est longtemps basé sur les analyses de M. Foucault, et particulièrement sur la métaphore panoptique. K.D. Haggerty et R.V. Ericson (2000), cependant, avancent que la métaphore panoptique est insuffisante pour rendre compte de la surveillance contemporaine. Ils ont ainsi développé la théorie du surveillant assemblage pour mieux rendre compte, selon eux, de cette surveillance contemporaine. Les auteurs ne proposent cependant aucune empirie dans leur article pour rendre compte de leurs résultats. Pour cette raison, et afin de vérifier l’actualité du surveillant assemblage (celui-ci ayant été théorisé en 2000), ce travail consiste en une étude empirique visant l’exploration de l’actualisation du surveillant assemblage dans la culture que constituent les films de science-fiction postérieurs à l’an 2000 portant sur la surveillance. Nous procéderons de la même manière pour la métaphore panoptique, afin de donner des éléments de réponse quant à la controverse qui existe autour de la pertinence d’avancer cette métaphore pour rendre compte de la surveillance contemporaine.

The purpose of this thesis is to describe the key aspects of the surveillance in the contemporary social media reality. It aims to take note of the basic approaches and theories in the field of surveillance and tries to fully describe and understand the impact of the - so called social media in the (post) modern situation, using the position of the interdisciplinary field of Surveillance studies, and also the works of M. Foucault, G. Deleuze etc., with the emphasis put on the theoretical and practical aspects of surveillance and monitoring of the modern media reality. The work also aims to bring balanced, sometimes critical view on the contemporary means of online communication and the tools, or means, that can be used to monitor the users of the internet - with, or without their consent or notion. Key words Surveillance studies, surveillance, media, online interactions, interactivity, social media, marketing

This thesis looks into the key aspects of surveillance and marketing issues. It describes surveillance as a subject of studies, historical development in studies regarding surveillance and default approaches to the surveillance from the Surveillance Studies branch point of view. Main source of information for the thesis comes from the concept of surveillance from Michael Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon and other experts. Practical part of the thesis aims to present a balanced look on the marketing as a sphere of surveillance, to describe development of surveillance in marketing and to outline eventual risk and consequences of contemporary surveillance in marketing.

This doctoral thesis explores the use of surveillance images and discourses of surveillance in the Swedish press. Questions concerning surveillance appear frequently in the news today. The ongoing »War on Terror« has generated numerous news reports informing their audiences how surveillance technologies will protect society, prevent terrorist attacks, and ensure security. The purpose of the study is to examine representations of surveillance in Swedish newspapers, more specifically, how they use surveillance- and amateur images in their reporting. In order to carry this out, the thesis sets up two areas of concern: news on terrorism and news on police violence. The questions that produce the field of inquiry relate to how discourses of surveillance are articulated in text and image. They also concern construction of social identities related to reproduction of power relations, normality, and deviance. Research material used in this study consists of journalistic texts and visual images published in mainly four major Swedish newspapers; Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet. A qualitative research strategy was undertaken inspired by discourse analysis. The analysis focuses on four major issues: representations of terrorists, intensified surveillance, victims, and representations of police violence. The analysis concentrates on surveillance images that were used by news media to visually represent the terrorists involved in the so called »London bombings« in 2005. The thesis also highlights how politicians and other experts become the predominant subjects who proclaim the need for a more modern, efficient, and enhanced surveillance technology. A further issue ofinterest concerns media representations of victims and especially how the construction of victims reproduces normality, and further, how victimisation is related to surveillance. The newspapers used amateur footage from ‘the bomb scene’ in ways that represent the victims, not as objects, but as active agents participating in an act of surveillance. How the public become represented as victims of the surveillance society is examined. Dystopic stories about negative aspects of surveillance including islamophobia and fear of intrusion of privacy emerge as major themes. Finally, the study seeks to connect surveillance to resistance. Different media events on police violence are discussed in the light of events that have been filmed by amateur video or surveillance cameras. Surveillance in a mediated context is a complex field with many different and contradicting meanings and connotations. However, it is clear that surveillance links up with security, resistance, power and control, intrusion of privacy, and above all, to the reproduction of social differences between Us and Them. The news media seems to promote a public discourse of fear, which may contribute to legitimisation of both present and future demands for intensified surveillance. Nonetheless, mediated surveillance may also help to resist and challenge power hierarchies in society and promote social change.

This paper utilizes a critical (political) discourse analysis to examine security dialogue as revealed through policy; in order to facilitate this task, the following publically available political documents will be analyzed: Smart Border Declaration; Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), and the pending Beyond Borders deal. The objective is to highlight the complexities and realities of the security era as it pertains to North American border security. In other words, I am interested in the administration of border security policy in its practical context. Reviewing the Beyond Borders deal and situating it within the overall national security policies that govern the Canadian border facilitates the identification of limitations posed by the security mentality dominant in border governance. This thesis advocates that those studying border security policies in order to formulate alternative options do so in a manner that appreciates the unique polity milieu of the border. The analysis presented here has policy implications and concludes with recommendations and projections for the Beyond Borders deal. / Thesis (Master, Sociology) -- Queen's University, 2011-10-14 13:59:44.787

This diploma thesis focuses on surveillance studies on online platform Facebook. This famous social site became a tool for both fun and business lately. Facebook collects data that is then used for some other purposes which means there is some kind of a surveillance done. All the infomation that Facebook collects is given by the users themselves who voluntarily share their personal information. This kind of collected data is then for example used for commercial purposes such as media advertising with obvious profit expectations and so is used in crime prevention such as cyberbullying etc. Diploma thesis is divided into three sections. First describes surveillance history until nowadays, postmodern times. Second part clarifies the formation of the social site Facebook, it's user rules and privacy rules as well as practical examples of using collected data online. The last part of this thesis introduces some other favourite social sites and its functions as well as their surveillance possibilities and advertising potential.

This diploma thesis focuses on social media phenomenon from a surveillance studies perspective. It perceives social media as a sphere, where many kinds of surveillance are realized. From those applied by partners to those driven by commercial interests. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part concentrates mainly on explanation of the connection between some important surveillance theories with the current surveillance practices on social media. The empirical part allows readers to understand how selected users of social media reflect surveillance and the loss of privacy associated with it.