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From Video Surveillance to Video Narratives: Three Black Male Stories on Safety

From Video Surveillance to Video Narratives: Three Black Male Stories on Safety

Alex Jean-Charles
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781799817666|ISBN10: 1799817660|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799817673|EISBN13: 9781799817680
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1766-6.ch002
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Jean-Charles, Alex. "From Video Surveillance to Video Narratives: Three Black Male Stories on Safety." Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing, edited by Stephanie P. Huffman, et al., IGI Global, 2020, pp. 18-32. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1766-6.ch002

APA

Jean-Charles, A. (2020). From Video Surveillance to Video Narratives: Three Black Male Stories on Safety. In S. Huffman, S. Loyless, S. Albritton, & C. Green (Eds.), Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing (pp. 18-32). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1766-6.ch002

Chicago

Jean-Charles, Alex. "From Video Surveillance to Video Narratives: Three Black Male Stories on Safety." In Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing, edited by Stephanie P. Huffman, et al., 18-32. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1766-6.ch002

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Abstract

This chapter examines the experience of young black males with video surveillance as a technology of oppression and video narratives as a technology of liberation. Foucault's work on power relations and Baudrillard's works on media simulation are used as a framework of analysis to examine (1) the “truths” that characterize the sphere of discourse that favors the use of security surveillance technology to control school violence; (2) the ways such regimes of power act to shape the consciousness and identity of poor, urban, young black male students; and (3) the ways the technology, as an expression of a panopticon technique, acts to shape the phenomenological experience of place for students. In addition, media and the portrayal of Black males are explored through classical Western literature.

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