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The spectacle of crime, digitized: CSI - Crime Scene Investigation and Social Anatomy

One of the most significant features of the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigationis its central preoccupation – forensic evidence – and the profession practised by its major characters – forensic science. Scientific inscriptions consistently allow the crime scene investigators (CSIs) to determine 'evidence' and 'truths' that otherwise elude them. At the same time, the dazzling digital effects used to punctuate key moments in each episode inevitably reference scientific technologies and the knowledge about reality that these promise. The success of the CSIs in every episode is premised upon knowledge guaranteed by scientific inscriptions and is itself an inscription of ways of seeing human bodies and the social body, represented by police scientists working to ensure public safety – a healthy social body. And it is also about how bodies, individual and social, are constituted as information, made knowable and validated by scientific instruments and procedures used to produce evidence.

The spectacle of crime, digitized: CSI - Crime Scene Investigation and Social Anatomy

Urheber*in: Gever, Martha

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Extent
Seite(n): 445-463
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8(4)

Subject
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Rundfunk, Telekommunikation
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gever, Martha
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Vereinigtes Königreich
(when)
2005

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-226516
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Gever, Martha

Time of origin

  • 2005

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