Targeted

“In this provocative, lucidly-written book, Kelly Gates uncovers the systems that sort and analyze the ‘avalanches of video’ captured by surveillance and policing cameras. Tackling topics like video forensics, policy body-cams, and video AI, Targeted does us all a huge service by detailing the media logistics and privatization of policing that surface around every corner. A must-read in these tumultuous times.” - Lisa Parks, University of California at Santa Barbara “A deeply researched exposé of the video surveillance industry. Kelly Gates shows how visibility is much more than a trap: it is a system of control that weaves together public and private institutions in an increasingly automated surveillance society. Targeted is a tour de force that continues Gates’s pioneering work on visual surveillance. It is an invaluable contribution to literature on surveillance and an essential road map for navigating the ongoing privatization and commercialization of the security state.” - Mark Andrejevic, Monash University

Kelly Gates is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance, as well as the editor of International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, Vol. 6: Media Studies Futures and The New Media of Surveillance. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Surveillance & Society, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Social Semiotics.