Article ID: CBB108699540

The sensory power of cameras and noise meters for protest surveillance in South Korea (June 2016)

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This article analyzes sensory aspects of material politics in social movements, focusing on two police tools: evidence-collecting cameras and noise meters for protest surveillance. Through interviews with Korean political activists, this article examines the relationship between power and the senses in the material culture of Korean protests and asks why cameras and noise meters appeared in order to control contemporary peaceful protests in the 2000s. The use of cameras and noise meters in contemporary peaceful protests evidences the exercise of what Michel Foucault calls ‘micro-power’. Building on material culture studies, this article also compares the visual power of cameras with the sonic power of noise meters, in terms of a wide variety of issues: the control of things versus words, impacts on protest size, differential effects on organizers and participants, and differences in timing regarding surveillance and punishment.

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Authors & Contributors
Buse, Peter
Delfanti, Alessandro
Emiliano Treré
Tu, Wen-Ling
Labuski, Christine
Kim, Hye-Suk
Concepts
Social movements
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Sound
Surveillance
Interviews
Cameras
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Korea
Argentina
South America
United States
Spain
Japan
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