But it's so easy, no? Buzz is a tyranny of convenience, I think Colin Bennett coined that phrase. Surveillance regimes are powerful because they offer something to users. That "pay off" must play a greater role in surveillance studies. /Greg Elmer
-- Greg Elmer, PhD Research Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University Senior Fellow, London School of Economics ------------------------------------------------------- Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University Director, Infoscape: Centre for the Study of Social Media www.infoscapelab.ca Columnist, The Hill Times, www.hilltimes.com Address: Room 309, Rogers Communications Centre Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 Canadian mobile#: 416 802-2182 _______________________________________________ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
