Targeted: Corporations and the Police Surveillance Economy

＂Every day, an avalanche of video floods onto media networks from a wide array of sources: millions of smartphones, surveillance cameras, body-cameras, webcams, drones, and more. This book looks at the role of video in the logistics of policing and security, examining how corporations leverage video infrastructures to expand their powers of both policing and profit-making＂--

Kelly Gates is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance, as well as the editor of International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, Vol. 6: Media Studies Futures and The New Media of Surveillance. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Surveillance & Society, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Social Semiotics.