Editorial : Surveillance and sport

Sports represent an ideal field to explore the importance of everyday surveillance practices. The routines of preparation associated with conducting or participating in a sports mega event at international&nbsp;level highlight unique facets of surveillance as everyday and normalised elements of elite international or professional sports performance. While these routines do have potential individual or social costs, or are&nbsp;open to various forms of subversion by athletes willing to challenge the broader objectives of fair play, other forces, such as the media or formal governance reactions to a detected rule violation, provide fuel for&nbsp;more rigorous forms of surveillance. This spiral of surveillance permeates downwards to impact on prospective elite athletes, and outwards to impact on other forms of behaviour considered to compromise integrity or fair play. How these values mirror and intersect with norms of surveillance in everyday life is a fruitful site for on-going research and theorisation.<br /

Raum – Weltbild – Kontrolle

What are the connections between space, control and world view? The author answers this question using the concept of cognitive mapping, which he presents and discusses as a theoretical concept of social analysis and as an empirical means of research. Surveillance - so his thesis - makes the examination and control of worldviews possible and thus becomes a form of social orientation. At the same time, worldviews also provide a basis for understanding attitudes towards surveillance measures. Surveillance in this sense is not a product of modernity, but occurs in all historical epochs and serves the organization of reality. Space and spatial notions of the world are shaped by the environment and the experiences people have in it. Socio-spatial conceptions are the origin of discourses of surveillance and are in turn influenced by forms of control. Worldviews can be used to trace attitudes and surveillance and the orientation patterns behind them. This book deals with these interrelations using the concept of cognitive mapping. This concept analyses causes and effects and explains how they play an important role in processes of social exclusion/integration or the possibilities of identity formation

Stories about Surveillance: David Lyon zur alltäglichen Überwachungskultur in der digitalen Moderne

David Lyon: The Culture of Surveillance:: Watching as a Way of Life. Cambridge: Polity Press 2018. 978-0-745-67172-

Zwei Bücher über Facebook

Rezension zu: (1) Daniel Miller: Tales from Facebook. Cambridge: Polity 2011, 220 S. ISBN 978-0-7456-5210-8. (2) Oliver Leistert, Theo Röhle (Hg.): Generation Facebook. Über das Leben im Social Net. Bielefeld: Transcript Verl. 2011, 288 S. ISBN 978-3-8376-1859-4

Offene Stadt - offene Gesellschaft: Rezension zu "Die offene Stadt: Eine Ethik des Bauens und Bewohnens" von Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett: Die offene Stadt - Eine Ethik des Bauens und Bewohnens. Berlin: Hanser Berlin 2018. 978-3-446-25859-

"Die Pandemie sind wir": Rezension von: Auf Abstand - Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Coronapandemie

Dieses ist eine Rezension von Malte Thießen: Auf Abstand. Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Coronapandemie. Fankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-593-51423-