Table of Contents

1. Communication Research and the Study of Surveillance Kelly Gates and Shoshana Magnet 2. Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure Mark Andrejevic 3. Of Ziploc Bags and Black Holes: The Aesthetics of Transparency in the War on Terror Rachel Hall 4. Monstrous Play in Negative Spaces: Illegible Bodies and the Cultural Construction of Biometric Technology Heather Murray 5. "War Rooms" of the Street: Surveillance Practices in Transportation Control Centers Torin Monahan 6. Getting Carded: Border Control and the Politics of Canada's Permanent Resident Card Simone Browne 7. Therapeutics of the Self: Surveillance in the Service of the Therapeutic Rachel E. Dubrofsky 8. Afterword: The Socioalgorithmics of Race: Sorting it Out in Jihad Worlds Lisa Nakamura

About the Author

Shoshana Magnet is based at the Institute of Women's Studes at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Kelly Gates is based at the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, USA.