All Outputs (10)

Techno-securitisation of everyday life and cultures of surveillance-apatheia (2019)
Journal Article

As a result of digital technologies and the internet becoming increasingly ubiquitous, security technologies and surveillance systems are progressively encroaching upon peoples’ privacy. Yet concerns about this appear to be relatively muted. Why is t... Read More about Techno-securitisation of everyday life and cultures of surveillance-apatheia.

It's not always good to talk (2018)
Journal Article

How many times have you been asked ‘How are you?’ and, regardless of how you were actually feeling, replied with a simple ‘Fine’? Or asked someone ‘Are you OK?’, and nodded whilst asking in order to encourage a positive reply? Much of the time the li... Read More about It's not always good to talk.

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.

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.

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.

Inhibition and reappraisal within emotional disclosure: the embodying of narration (2009)
Journal Article

The emotional disclosure paradigm (EDP) associates better health with repeated disclosure of emotional experiences. However, disclosure does not bring health benefits for all, and neither does the EDP adequately specify embodied mechanisms or neural... Read More about Inhibition and reappraisal within emotional disclosure: the embodying of narration.