Outputs (21)

Experiencing the surveillance society (2016)
Journal Article

The images that circulated following the November 2015 Paris attacks and the August 2011 UK disturbances have reminded us of the ubiquity of surveillance. In the UK we may be aware of the CCTV owned by local councils and shops; the helicopter-borne c... Read More about Experiencing the surveillance society.

Social Psychology of Emotion (2015)
Book

The study of emotion tends to breach traditional academic boundaries and binary lingustics. It requires multi-modal perspectives and the suspension of dualistic conventions to appreciate its complexity.

This book analyses historical, philosophical... Read More about Social Psychology of Emotion.

Surveillance (2014)
Book Chapter

Surveillance has been of interest to critical psychologists in two distinct ways: as a matter of practical; and political concern in relation to civil liberties and as a theoretical concern in relation to the construction and policing of societal nor... Read More about Surveillance.

The affective atmospheres of surveillance (2013)
Journal Article

The spaces that surveillance produces can be thought of as ambiguous, entailing elements that are ethereal yet material, geographical yet trans-geographical. Contemporary surveillance systems form numerous connections that involve multiple times, spa... Read More about The affective atmospheres of surveillance.

The dynamics of impersonal trust and distrust in surveillance systems (2013)
Journal Article

Empirical research concerned with the trust that individuals may or may not have in surveillance systems has largely been gauged through opinion poll and survey type research. Although these may be useful in augmenting broad patterns of trust based a... Read More about The dynamics of impersonal trust and distrust in surveillance systems.

Surveillance and subjectivity: Everyday experiences of surveillance practices (2013)
Book Chapter

The growth of a surveillance industrial complex over recent decades has had significant implications for the political economy of personal information. Within the field of surveillance studies there has been an engagement with these issues at a macro... Read More about Surveillance and subjectivity: Everyday experiences of surveillance practices.

Transformative processes of agency: Information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves (2012)
Journal Article

New media technologies are becoming an increasingly prominent constituent of everyday living, with their proliferation presenting new challenges to key aspects of the self, namely agency and identity. The potential recalibration of these notions come... Read More about Transformative processes of agency: Information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves.

Virtuality and Ernst Bloch: Hope and subjectivity (2011)
Journal Article

Theories of affect have become an increasingly popular tool with which to conceptualise and analyse subjectivity. Of particular interest to us in this article are expositions that have sought to bring to the forefront of analysis notions of excess an... Read More about Virtuality and Ernst Bloch: Hope and subjectivity.

Emotional inhibition: A discourse analysis of disclosure (2011)
Journal Article

Evidence generated within the emotional disclosure paradigm (EDP) suggests that talking or writing about emotional experiences produces health benefits, but recent meta-analyses have questioned its efficacy. Studies within the EDP typically rely upon... Read More about Emotional inhibition: A discourse analysis of disclosure.

Stop and search: Disproportionality, discretion and generalisations (2010)
Journal Article

It has long been recognised that discretion is vital to good police work. However, in Britain (and many other countries), practices of discretion in the stop and search context have come under much scrutiny as it has widely been linked to racist prac... Read More about Stop and search: Disproportionality, discretion and generalisations.