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Surveillance as housework care, cameras, and community in the (new) neighborhood watch Jenny Lee
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Jenny, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication.
- Law enforcement.
- Political science.
- Information technology.
- Black studies.
- 0459.
- 0489.
- 0206.
- 0325.
- 0615.
- Local Subjects:
- Communication.
- Law enforcement.
- Political science.
- Information technology.
- Black studies.
- 0459.
- 0489.
- 0206.
- 0325.
- 0615.
- Genre:
- Academic theses
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 87-12B
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2026
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Centered around the lived experiences of neighborhood surveillance by participants in two disparate Philadelphia neighborhoods, this dissertation examines how doorbell cameras come to figure as care work. Through qualitative interviews and online and offline ethnographic observations, this project identifies how the racial and historical politics of a place shape orientations of watching, and how these politics structure what my users believe are the "problems" facing their communities. It shows how surveillance is appreciated as active, time-consuming, and relational work, and how participants deploy this care work through specific practices and refusals based on their own racial identities. This dissertation argues that, despite the predominant positioning of care as oppositional to surveillance - even an antidote to its harms - care work has long rendered surveillance more durable
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-12, Section: B.
- Advisors: Ticona, Julia Committee members: Banet-Weiser, Sarah; Turow, Joseph; Browne, Simone
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2026
- Vendor supplied data
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798247973485
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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