From Video Surveillance to Video Narratives: Three Black Male Stories on Safety

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Author(s): Alex Jean-Charles (Missouri State University, USA)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 15
Source title: Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Stephanie P. Huffman (Missouri State University, USA), Stacey Loyless (University of Central Arkansas, USA), Shelly Albritton (University of Central Arkansas, USA)and Charlotte Green (University of Central Arkansas, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1766-6.ch002

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / Educational Technologies

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This chapter examines the experience of young black males with video surveillance as a technology of oppression and video narratives as a technology of liberation. Foucault's work on power relations and Baudrillard's works on media simulation are used as a framework of analysis to examine (1) the “truths” that characterize the sphere of discourse that favors the use of security surveillance technology to control school violence; (2) the ways such regimes of power act to shape the consciousness and identity of poor, urban, young black male students; and (3) the ways the technology, as an expression of a panopticon technique, acts to shape the phenomenological experience of place for students. In addition, media and the portrayal of Black males are explored through classical Western literature.

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