New Surveillance Technologies and Their Publics: A case of Biometrics
| dc.contributor.author | Martin, A K | |
| dc.contributor.author | Donovan, K P | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-11T09:55:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-11T09:55:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-10T08:46:24Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Before a newly-elected government abandoned the project in 2010, for at least eight years the British state actively sought to introduce a mandatory national identification scheme for which the science and technology of biometrics was central. Throughout the effort, government representatives attempted to portray biometrics as a technology that was easily understandable and readily accepted by the public. However, neither task was straightforward. Instead, particular publics emerged that showed biometric technology was rarely well understood and often disagreeable. In contrast to some traditional conceptualizations of the relationship between public understanding and science, it was often those entities that best understood the technology that found it least acceptable, rather than those populations that lacked knowledge. This paper analyzes the discourses that pervaded the case in order to untangle how various publics are formed and exhibit differing, conflicting understandings of a novel technology. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662513514173 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Martin, A. K., & Donovan, K. P. (2014). New Surveillance Technologies and Their Publics: A case of Biometrics. <i>Public Understanding of Science</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19590 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Martin, A K, and K P Donovan "New Surveillance Technologies and Their Publics: A case of Biometrics." <i>Public Understanding of Science</i> (2014) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19590 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Martin, A. K., & Donovan, K. P. (2014). New surveillance technologies and their publics: A case of biometrics. Public Understanding of Science, 0963662513514173. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0963-6625 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Martin, A K AU - Donovan, K P AB - Before a newly-elected government abandoned the project in 2010, for at least eight years the British state actively sought to introduce a mandatory national identification scheme for which the science and technology of biometrics was central. Throughout the effort, government representatives attempted to portray biometrics as a technology that was easily understandable and readily accepted by the public. However, neither task was straightforward. Instead, particular publics emerged that showed biometric technology was rarely well understood and often disagreeable. In contrast to some traditional conceptualizations of the relationship between public understanding and science, it was often those entities that best understood the technology that found it least acceptable, rather than those populations that lacked knowledge. This paper analyzes the discourses that pervaded the case in order to untangle how various publics are formed and exhibit differing, conflicting understandings of a novel technology. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Public Understanding of Science LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 SM - 0963-6625 T1 - New Surveillance Technologies and Their Publics: A case of Biometrics TI - New Surveillance Technologies and Their Publics: A case of Biometrics UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19590 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19590 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Martin AK, Donovan KP. New Surveillance Technologies and Their Publics: A case of Biometrics. Public Understanding of Science. 2014; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19590. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Public Understanding of Science | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/afr/journal/public-understanding-science | |
| dc.title | New Surveillance Technologies and Their Publics: A case of Biometrics | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |