TY - JOUR
T1 - The tension between caring surveillance and controlling surveillance in the public library
AU - Robinson, Elaine
AU - McMenemy, David
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for funding this research.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by Association for Information Science and Technology
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This visual presentation will take the format of a poster, displaying the preliminary results of a study into acceptable use policies (AUPs) in UK public libraries. This study seeks to understand how surveillance is used in the public library and if surveillance is used in a caring or controlling way. This research used discourse analysis to analyse the content of 200 acceptable use policies in the UK. Results indicate that libraries use both caring and controlling surveillance, with more instances of controlling surveillance being found, and that there appears to be tension between the usage of caring and controlling surveillance in public libraries in the UK.
AB - This visual presentation will take the format of a poster, displaying the preliminary results of a study into acceptable use policies (AUPs) in UK public libraries. This study seeks to understand how surveillance is used in the public library and if surveillance is used in a caring or controlling way. This research used discourse analysis to analyse the content of 200 acceptable use policies in the UK. Results indicate that libraries use both caring and controlling surveillance, with more instances of controlling surveillance being found, and that there appears to be tension between the usage of caring and controlling surveillance in public libraries in the UK.
KW - acceptable use policy
KW - discourse analysis
KW - privacy
KW - public libraries
KW - surveillance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040782771&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401158
DO - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401158
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040782771
VL - 54
SP - 790
EP - 791
JO - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
JF - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
IS - 1
ER -