Brave Invisible Worlds？－ The Rise of Close Circuit Television Systems in Public Spaces in Taiwan
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Yang, Ya-Ling
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The close circuit television system (CCTV) has been used to monitor flow rates of traffic. But recently it has been set up in urban public places (for example, community neighborhoods, sites of infrastructures such as railway stations ), semi-public spaces like department stores, private office buildings or houses owned by citizens. People regard it as panacea to prevent crimes.
A brief historical retrospect of the rise of CCTV in public spaces in Taiwan took us back to 1998. Minister of Interior Affairs – Huang Zhu-Wen advocated a national blueprint about CCTV, announcing a program to set up the safeguard system. In the same year, he also drew up a budget for that program. In 1999, an enacted project ,Envelopment System,made the CCTV in public spaces increase rapidly and thus it became the indispensable tool for maintaining public order.
The profit of CCTV industry in Taiwan grew up 17% in 2003, occupying the highest position in all security industries. Our government is about to position CCTV industry as one of the strategy industries. Many IT enterprises also put it into operation. The central authorities, lower level government administrations, and security industries league together to construct a digital surveillance city. Under the circumstances, meanings of urban public spaces shared by all citizens have been monitored by the electric eyes.
I probed into this phenomenon in three dimensions:surveillance and community, surveillance and television, surveillance and security industries. My attempt is to clarify how surveillance mechanisms have been changing, how CCTV has been articulating to the politics, economics, media, science and technology, and how CCTV has been constructing the surveillance society and eroding all powers of resistance from citizens in modern Taiwan cities.
Subjects
錄影監視系統
天羅地網系統
安防產業
close circuit television system (CCTV)
Envelopment System
security industry
surveillance society
SDGs
Type
thesis
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