'The other side of surveillance': Webcams, power and agency

Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 163-181

  Koskela, Hille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843926818     Document Type: Chapter

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