Empowered watchers or disempowered workers?: The ambiguities of power within technologies of security

Technologies of InSecurity: The Surveillance of Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 125-146

  Smith, Gavin John Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203891582     Document Type: Chapter

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