La video vigilancia y el discurso de la seguridad

Hacia el proceso electoral del 2012

Abstract

Video surveillance is becoming more important in social investigation; the analysis of its processes and social, economic, and political implications has several important developments, specially in countries where the massive use of them is a central component of national security policies. This paper is intended to set an approach to the subject, in order to relate the problems that come from the use of ICT as well as the discourse strategy design for the construction of consensus and legitimacy of the political power looking forward the presidential elections in Mexico in 2012. The security represents the biggest challenge for public management and the reproduction of the political system, video surveillance has become a highly profitable political strategy in the search of consensus over the efficacy of government’s action. In the institutional crisis that faces the mexican state and in answer to the media information management about the insecurity situation in the country, the image registration and reproduction technologies represent tools and scenarios for the legitimation of power, social order, and effective government action that uses and transfers to video surveillance the power to control public spaces. Safety is the biggest challenge for the management and reproduction of the political system, video surveillance is a highly profitable resource in the search for concensus on the effectiveness of action of government.