Recording and reporting: Camera phones, user-generated images and surveillance

ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 272-293

  Yesil, Bilge ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84900283084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-051-8.ch016     Document Type: Chapter

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