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Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families

Margaret K. Nelson

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance of using baby monitors, the more obviously intrusive use of home drug tests on teenagers, or the way people in public feel free to judge and comment on the family composition of others, monitoring goes on all the time -- and even when there seems to be no monitoring going on at all.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Release: September 01, 2009

ISBN: 0826516726

ISBN 13: 9780826516725

Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families

Margaret K. Nelson

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance of using baby monitors, the more obviously intrusive use of home drug tests on teenagers, or the way people in public feel free to judge and comment on the family composition of others, monitoring goes on all the time -- and even when there seems to be no monitoring going on at all.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Release: September 01, 2009

ISBN: 0826516726

ISBN 13: 9780826516725

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