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The Politics of
Surveillance: Big Brother on Prozac by Stuart Waiton
The
Politics of Surveillance
This paper explores the rise of CCTV in society during the last two decades. It concentrates on state sponsored surveillance schemes in an attempt to answer the question of why it is that CCTV surveillance emerged at this particular point in history. At one level, advancing technology can allow a ‘surveillance society’ to emerge, yet the extent to which CCTV cameras have spread into city centres and residential areas suggests something more profound has changed in ‘public’ life. The exponential rise in the surveillance of society is often understood to reflect the rise of authoritarianism, perhaps particularly in the UK…see attached file for the full article or view this link
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/view/prozac/prozac .
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Education Committee Online Forum
The Committee has teamed up with leading online student community The Student Room to consult its 500,000 young members about which services they use. It wants to hear from young people aged 13 to 25 on subjects including what out-of-school activities they do, whether they volunteer, their views on a summer programme for 16-year olds and how they would spend the budget for young people in their area.
At the beginning of March 2011 the Education Committee launched an online discussion with young people as part of its ongoing inquiry into Services for Young People. Please could you make every effort to support the young people to contribute
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Parliament_wants_your_view .
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