Police Media: The Governance of Territory, Speed, and Communication

Reeves, Joshua; Packer, Jeffrey A.

doi:10.1080/14791420.2013.835053

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“…Edwin Chadwick’s Sanitary Report of London , for instance, incorporated “ocular inspection” of poor and working-class neighborhoods in order to make decisions about whom and where to target intervention (Poovey, 1995: 36). Similarly, the Benthamite economy of space characteristic of early police departments used ocular inspection in order to most efficiently target interventions at problematized places (Reeves and Packer, 2013).…”

Section: Geovisual Spatial Abstraction and The Social Sorting Of Placementioning

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Street-level: Google Street View’s abstraction by datafication

Shapiro

2017

New Media & Society

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While aerial photography is associated with vertical objectivity and spatial abstractions, street-level imagery appears less political in its orientation to the particularities of place. I contest this assumption, showing how the aggregation of street-level imagery into “big datasets” allows for the algorithmic sorting of places by their street-level visual qualities. This occurs through an abstraction by “datafication,” inscribing new power geometries onto urban places through algorithmic linkages between visual environmental qualities, geographic information, and valuations of social worth and risk. Though largely missing from media studies of Google Street View, similar issues have been raised in critiques of criminological theories that use place as a proxy for risk. Comparing the Broken Windows theory of criminogenesis with big data applications of street-level imagery informs a critical media studies approach to Google Street View. The final section of this article suggests alternative theoretical orientations for algorithm design that avoid the pitfalls of essentialist equations of place with social character.

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Section: Geovisual Spatial Abstraction and The Social Sorting Of Placementioning

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Street-level: Google Street View’s abstraction by datafication

Shapiro

2017

New Media & Society

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“…One can observe this capitalist commodification in the transformation of all non-digital media into a single unitary form. Indeed, digitalisation reduces all media to overcome spatio-temporal barriers (Reeves & Packer, 2013). The embodied lived experience, all the remainders of which cannot be subsumed into the conceived, or in Agre's (1994) terms parsed into computer-readable data, is rendered invisible and, unless deliberately sought out with remedial managerial surveillance, permanently lost to the organisation.…”

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Algorithmic Surveillance in the Gig Economy: The Organization of Work through Lefebvrian Conceived Space

Newlands

2020

Organization Studies

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Workplace surveillance is traditionally conceived of as a dyadic process, with an observer and an observee. In this paper, I discuss the implications of an emerging form of workplace surveillance: surveillance with an algorithmic, as opposed to human, observer. Situated within the on-demand food-delivery context, I draw upon Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad to provide in-depth conceptual examination of how platforms rely on conceived space, namely the virtual reality generated by data capture, while neglecting perceived and lived space in the form of the material embodied reality of workers. This paper offers a two-fold contribution. First, it applies Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad to the techno-centric digital cartography used by platform-mediated organisations, assessing spatial power dynamics and opportunities for resistance. Second, this paper advances organisational research into workplace surveillance in situations where the observer and decision-maker can be a non-human agent.

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“…Its primary method of representation, photography, was accompanied by an entire apparatus of measurement, storage, and analysis—including calipers, ink pens, rulers, gauges, and file cabinets (Morris-Reich, 2016, pp. 34–84; Reeves & Packer, 2013). Located within this media environment, the photograph takes on a specific representational function—its significance is always deferred, always figural, in that it succeeds only in continuously circulating the physiological essence of the criminal.…”

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Making enemies with media

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2020

Communication and the Public

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This article examines the role of media technology in determining preconstitutive enemies of the political order. To do so, it analyzes how discipline-specific methods of enemy detection, analysis, and neutralization correspond to different media environments. Media have a diagnostic and prescriptive significance: not only do they locate enemies that conform to their own unique standards of measurement, they also offer reprogramming resources that accentuate their own peculiar biases and capacities. Episodes in the history of biology and psychology are examined for evidence of this media logic.

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Police Media: The Governance of Territory, Speed, and Communication

Cited by 35 publications

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Street-level: Google Street View’s abstraction by datafication

Street-level: Google Street View’s abstraction by datafication

Algorithmic Surveillance in the Gig Economy: The Organization of Work through Lefebvrian Conceived Space

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