Accounting for surveillance

Jones, R. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9426-727X (2020) Accounting for surveillance. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24 (1). pp. 89-95. ISSN 1360-6441 doi: 10.1111/josl.12405

Abstract/Summary

This contribution discusses the ways people hold themselves and others accountable for everyday practices of surveillance. It analyses three examples: (1) the “breeching experiments” of the video artist “Surveillance Camera Man,” (2) a “stop and frisk” incident involving a 17‐year‐old boy in Harlem, and (3) the pop‐up windows on websites that ask for users’ consent to use “cookies.” Understanding the relationship between language and securitization, it is argued, requires that we pay attention to the interactional basis of surveillance and the ways rights and responsibilities are negotiated, ratified, challenged, or ignored in the moment‐by‐moment unfolding of communication.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/88025
Identification Number/DOI	10.1111/josl.12405
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Language and Applied Linguistics
Publisher	Wiley
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