Rhythm and Vigilance

Vita Peacock is Research Associate at King’s College London and Principal Investigator on the Surveillance and Moral Community project, funded by the European Research Council. Mikkel Kenni Bruun is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.Claire Elisabeth Dungey is Research Fellow at the University of Brighton.Matan Shapiro is a freelance researcher.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Rhythm and Vigilance- Vita Peacock Part I: Care and WellbeingChapter 1: Watching Our Selves: Fitness and Mindfulness as Practices of Self-Monitoring in Britain - Mikkel Kenni Bruun Chapter 2: “I don’t have time to watch everybody”: Location-Based Monitoring, Timescapes and Family Life in Germany - Claire Dungey Chapter 3: Tinkering with Time and Technologies in Dementia Care - Astrid Meyer, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard, and Anders Albrechtslund Part II: Real-Time Monitoring Chapter 4: Divergent Temporal Dynamics and Time Work Among Delivery Workers in Denmark and Malta - Kalle KuskChapter 5: Uncertain Times: Citizen app and Temporalities of Personalized Security in New York City - Alice McAlpine-Riddell Chapter 6: Synchronizing Orbits and Deep Learning Algorithms: Satellite Surveillance and Civil Sea Rescue Missions in the Mediterranean - Andreas Stoiber Chapter 7: Surveillance in Small Acts: Health Code Rituals during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Xiamen, China - Karolina Kupinska Part III: Systems Past, Present and FutureChapter 8: Privacy as Unfolding: German Netzpolitik and the Legacy of Colonial Registration - Vita PeacockChapter 9: Playtime: Monitoring and Surveillance in NFT Sociality - Matan Shapiro Chapter 10: Growth’s Imagination: Startups and the Cruel Intimacy of the Internet’s Business Model - Lake Polan Afterword: Watching, Waiting, Speculating - Sun-ha Hong

“This innovative edited collection is a masterful exploration in the role of ethnography in comprehending the intersection between rhythms of life, temporal opacity and digital surveillance in contemporary life.” Atreyee Sen, University of Copenhagen