Everyday Surveillance
Everyday Surveillance

Author: William G. Staples

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1442226293

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When we think of surveillance in our society, we usually imagine “Big Brother” scenarios with the government tracking our every move. The actual surveillance of our everyday lives is much more subtle, however, and may be more insidious. William G. Staples shows how our lives are tracked by both public and private organizations—sometimes with our consent, and sometimes without—through our internet use, cell phones, public video cameras, credit cards, license plates, shopping habits, and more. Everyday Surveillance is a provocative exploration of the myriad ways we are watched each day, and how this surveillance shapes our lives. Thoroughly revised, the second edition considers new topics, such as the rise of social media, and updates research throughout. Everyday Surveillance introduces students to concepts of social control and incites classroom discussion about how surveillance impacts the ways we understand people and our lives at home, work, school, or in the community.

Animal Vigilance
Animal Vigilance

Author: Guy Beauchamp

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0128019948

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Animal Vigilance builds on the author's previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function of vigilance. Animal vigilance has been at the forefront of research on animal behavior for many years, but no comprehensive review of this topic has existed. Students of animal behavior have focused on many aspects of animal vigilance, from models of its adaptive value to empirical research in the laboratory and in the field. The vast literature on vigilance is widely dispersed with often little contact between models and empirical work and between researchers focusing on different taxa such as birds and mammals. Animal Vigilance fills this gap in the available material. - Tackles vigilance from all angles, theoretical and empirical, while including the broadest range of species to underscore unifying themes - Discusses several newer developments in the area, such as vigilance copying and effect of food density - Highlights recent challenges to assumptions of traditional models of vigilance, such as the assumption that vigilance is independent among group members, which is reviewed during discussion of synchronization and coordination of vigilance in a group - Written by a top expert in animal vigilance

Social Media as Surveillance
Social Media as Surveillance

Author: Daniel Trottier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1317053826

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While there is a lot of popular and academic interest in social media, this is the first academic work which addresses its growing presence in the surveillance of everyday life. Some scholars have considered its impact on privacy, but these efforts overlook the broader risks for users. Commonsense recommendations of care and vigilance are not enough, as attempts to manage an individual presence are complicated by the features which make social media 'social'. Facebook friends routinely expose each other, and this information leaks from one context to another. This book develops a surveillance studies approach to social media by presenting first hand ethnographic research with a variety of personal and professional social media users. Using Facebook as a case-study, it describes growing monitoring practices that involve social media. What makes this study unique is that it not only considers social media surveillance as multi-purpose, but also shows how these different purposes augment one another, leading to a rapid spread of surveillance and visibility. Individual, institutional, market-based, security and intelligence forms of surveillance therefore co-exist with each other on the same site. Not only are they drawing from the same interface and information, but these practices also augment each other. This groundbreaking research considers the rapid growth and volatility of social media technology by treating these aspects as central to social media surveillance.

Activism and the School Librarian
Activism and the School Librarian

Author: Deborah D. Levitov

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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This book provides practical strategies and step-by-step plans for developing advocacy initiatives for school libraries. School libraries provide an essential service to the community, but without proper funding few libraries stand a chance to maintain the resources they offer—or to survive at all. School librarians can play an instrumental role in the survival of their programs. This how-to book provides school librarians with effective advocacy and activism strategies for promoting and improving their library programs. Activism and the School Librarian: Tools for Advocacy and Survival offers straightforward, practical approaches for creating advocacy programs. This guidebook examines the characteristics for becoming an advocate, explores the meaning of advocacy/activism as an effort that is ongoing and proactive, and provides the steps required for initiating a successful program. The contributors address the various types of advocacy and activism, including legislative advocacy at the local, state, and national levels; school and district level programs; and community-based initiatives. The book includes expert advice from successful advocates and provides helpful reproducible tools.

On the Move
On the Move

Author: Sue Boinski

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-05-15

Total Pages: 826

ISBN-13: 9780226063409

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Getting from here to there may be simple for one individual. But as any parent, scout leader, or CEO knows, herding a whole troop in one direction is a lot more complicated. Who leads the group? Who decides where the group will travel, and using what information? How do they accomplish these tasks? On the Move addresses these questions, examining the social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. Chapters discuss how factors such as group size, resource distribution and availability, the costs of travel, predation, social cohesion, and cognitive skills affect how individuals as well as social groups exploit their environment. Most chapters focus on field studies of a wide range of human and nonhuman primate groups, from squirrel monkeys to Turkana pastoralists, but chapters covering group travel in hyenas, birds, dolphins, and bees provide a broad taxonomic perspective and offer new insights into comparative questions, such as whether primates are unique in their ability to coordinate group-level activities.

Vigilance's Solution
Vigilance's Solution

Author: Jeremy Michelson

Publisher: Jeremy Michelson

Published:

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13:

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After fifty years, the original Vigilante’s secret is revealed. A mysterious manuscript arrives from Suni’s long dead father, Thomas. In those pages, he tells the tale of a secret episode from the original Vigilante, Blake Trumbull’s, colorful past. Blake and Thomas have been wrongly accused of the brutal murder of their colleague. Forcing Blake to reveal his secret identity to his friend. Together they must track down the true murderer. But the truth turns about to be even stranger than they could believe. A plot so twisted and depraved that it leaves them reeling. One man’s senseless death could trigger the deaths of thousands. The Vigilante has only one chance to save the city. But the villains behind the deadly plan have an advantage he didn’t count on. Can the Vigilante and his impromptu sidekick, Thomas, somehow prevail against diabolical, merciless forces? The exciting tale in the Bedlam’s Heroes series that couldn’t be told until now.