Crime, media and the will-to-representation: Reconsidering relationships in the new media age

This paper considers the ways in which the rise of new media might challenge commonplace criminological assumptions about the crime–media interface. Established debates around crime and media have long been based upon a fairly clear demarcation between production and consumption, between object and audience – the media generates and transmits representations of crime, and audiences engage with them. However, one of the most noticeable changes occurring in the wake of the development of new media is the proliferation of self-organised production by ‘ordinary people’ – everything ranging from self-authored web pages and ‘blogs’, to self-produced video created using hand-held camcorders, camera-phones and ‘webcams’. Today we see the spectacle of people them, send them and upload them to the Internet. This kind of ‘will to representation’ may be seen in itself as a new kind of causal inducement to law- and rule-breaking behaviour. It may be that, in the new media age, the terms of criminological questioning need to be sometimes reversed: instead of asking whether ‘media’ instigates crime or fear of crime, we must ask how the very possibility of bound up with the genesis of criminal behaviour.performing acts of crime and deviance in order to recordmediating oneself to an audience through self-representation might be bound up with the genesis of criminal behaviour

The International Planetary Protection Handbook

The Planetary Protection of Outer Solar System (PPOSS) project tackled the science, technology and policy-making components related to biological and organic contamination of outer solar system bodies, in particular icy moons. This intensive three-year program has provided an international platform and forum where science, industry and policy actors met to nurture and catalyze discussions, exchange of knowledge and produce policy recommendations on the matter of planetary protection. The main objectives of the PPOSS project are to: Describe the state-of-the-art and good practice for implementing planetary protection requirements, and identify good practices and lessons to be learnt. Identify scientific challenges, requirements and knowledge gaps related to planetary protection of outer solar system bodies, including small solar system bodies. Develop a European engineering roadmap for the industry sector. Review the international outer solar system planetary protection regulation structure and categorization and suggest improvements, and, Facilitate the dissemination of knowledge related to planetary protection. The PPOSS project gathers seven European partner organizations, one international partner and one international observer