Open-Street Camera Surveillance and Governance in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rather than relying on an undifferentiated version of Michel Foucault's panopticon or conceptualizing surveillance as a straightforward top-down measure, this article contends that open-street closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance is generated from numerous and overlapping social positions. As a regulatory project within the overarching context of governance, open-street CCTV can be generated from above, from the middle, or from below. By "above," what is meant is some hierarchical political or administrative body. Business entrepreneurs constitute the "middle." By "from below," I mean that citizens themselves seek out regulatory measures for their own communities through moral entrepreneurship, often in collusion with local news media. But the inverse is also true: power moves through populations, and thus citizens' groups have the power to contest regulatory measures in their communities. I substantiate these theoretical claims with media, questionnaire, and interview data regarding the proliferation of open-street CCTV in Canada. Drawing from the sociologies of governance, of risk, and of critical media studies, and offering a more nuanced theoretical trajectory than theories that reproduce top-down conceptualizations of power, politics, and communication, I challenge the reigning theoretical models pertaining to open-street CCTV surveillance so as to demonstrate how regulation through camera surveillance can be generated from any number of social positions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it