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When the Street Lights Come On: How a Smart City Became a Surveillance State
When the Street Lights Come On: How a Smart City Became a Surveillance State
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103553
- ISBN
- 9798288862304
- DDC
- 340
- 저자명
- McLemore, Brie.
- 서명/저자
- When the Street Lights Come On: How a Smart City Became a Surveillance State
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 229 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Simon, Jonathan;Obasogie, Osagie.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약My dissertation, "When the Street Lights Come On: How a Smart City Became a Surveillance State, situates "smart streetlights" in San Diego as a proxy for understanding how seemingly mundane technologies have increased the potential for surveillance. In 2016, the city piloted the nation's first smart street light program, retrofitting a quarter of the city's street lights with cameras. While the technology was initially proposed as a climate change initiative, it has transformed into a tool for surveillance. The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) has acquired complete control of the city's smart street light infrastructure, dictating the geographical placement of each light and equipping the technology with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), further increasing its surveillance capabilities. My research asks: (1) How did smart street lights become a tool for surveillance, even when this was not their intended use? (2) What do smart street lights reveal about the manifestation and objectives of State power? (3) How is privacy experienced, negotiated, and foreclosed upon within a "smart city," and who has the power to make these determinations? I conclude that smart street lights are an infrastructure of surveillance that entrenches and expands the built environment of the carceral state, in which the presumed purposes and functions of the technology shift to account for the dominating social, political, and economic order of space. I also argue that the transformation of smart street lights from a tool for climate change to an instrument of surveillance is indicative of the historical duality of street lights, in which promises of economic and social progress have co-existed with the threat of surveillance and policing. My research also interrogates how privacy rights in the digital age are shaped by city officials and law enforcement who exploit gaps in legal doctrine to justify racialized surveillance, raising serious concerns about the power dynamics at play. In totality, this project provides a comprehensive understanding of the historical processes culminating in smart street light surveillance, the lived experiences of those subjected to its use, and the limited protections contending with similar pervasive and evolving "smart" technologies.
- 일반주제명
- Law
- 일반주제명
- Urban planning
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 키워드
- Privacy
- 키워드
- Race
- 키워드
- Surveillance
- 키워드
- Technology
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Jurisprudence & Social Policy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-01A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aMy dissertation, "When the Street Lights Come On: How a Smart City Became a Surveillance State, situates "smart streetlights" in San Diego as a proxy for understanding how seemingly mundane technologies have increased the potential for surveillance. In 2016, the city piloted the nation's first smart street light program, retrofitting a quarter of the city's street lights with cameras. While the technology was initially proposed as a climate change initiative, it has transformed into a tool for surveillance. The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) has acquired complete control of the city's smart street light infrastructure, dictating the geographical placement of each light and equipping the technology with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), further increasing its surveillance capabilities. My research asks: (1) How did smart street lights become a tool for surveillance, even when this was not their intended use? (2) What do smart street lights reveal about the manifestation and objectives of State power? (3) How is privacy experienced, negotiated, and foreclosed upon within a "smart city," and who has the power to make these determinations? I conclude that smart street lights are an infrastructure of surveillance that entrenches and expands the built environment of the carceral state, in which the presumed purposes and functions of the technology shift to account for the dominating social, political, and economic order of space. I also argue that the transformation of smart street lights from a tool for climate change to an instrument of surveillance is indicative of the historical duality of street lights, in which promises of economic and social progress have co-existed with the threat of surveillance and policing. My research also interrogates how privacy rights in the digital age are shaped by city officials and law enforcement who exploit gaps in legal doctrine to justify racialized surveillance, raising serious concerns about the power dynamics at play. In totality, this project provides a comprehensive understanding of the historical processes culminating in smart street light surveillance, the lived experiences of those subjected to its use, and the limited protections contending with similar pervasive and evolving "smart" technologies.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17357739▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
