We like to watch : race and the sociology of surveillance

We Like to Watch gets its title from a Time magazine cover story on reality television and Americans’ "passion for peeping".

This book takes sociological theories of race and applies them to the study of surveillance in a style and format that can be easily adopted as a required text for undergraduate courses on Surveillance, New Media, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies.

Topics explored in this book include: reality television, CCTV and social media.