Revisiting the surveillance camera revolution: Issues of governance and public policy. Introduction to part two of the Special Issue This collection of articles forms the second part of a double Special Issue of Information Polity devoted to the subject of surveillance cameras and systems, often referred to here as CCTV (Closed Circuit Television). Part One was previously published as Volume 16, Number 4, in 2011. Part Two features two articles, three case studies and two surveillance-themed book reviews. Studying a diversity of CCTV systems in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and England, the present collection captures both the contemporary complexity and rapid development of CCTV, and the methodological and conceptual diversity of scholarly inquiry into this subject. In this introduction, we set out an overview of each article, before moving to a discussion of three crosscutting themes that arise from this collection. 1. Contents of Part Two Each of the first two articles develops an elaborate problematic related to issues of governance and public policy in the field of CCTV surveillance. The first article, by Pieter Wagenaar and Kees Boersma, ‘CCTV-operator practices at Schiphol Airport’, provides a strongly ethnographic account of surveillance strategies and practices in the securitisation of Schiphol International Airport. Anchored in, and testifying to, the now well-established tradition of ethnographic control room research, the approach pursued here focuses on the micro level, locating the various policy issues surrounding CCTV in the context of a specific range of control practices and issues in a particular geographical locale. Yet, the aim is not only to provide isolated insights into the micro-politics of security and surveillance in the Schiphol context, but also to re-institute this question as part of a broader set of issues: how exactly does CCTV surveillance permeate particular places and moments? How and by whom are the aims of CCTV negotiated and defined and how do these then legitimise particular interventions? Pete Fussey’s article, ‘Eastern promise? East London transformations and the state of surveillance’, is driven by a concern to understand the forces, processes and mechanisms shaping the contemporary intensification and extension of surveillance infrastructures in East London, the location of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In recent years, developments of CCTV have been acknowledged and described by various scholars. Yet these studies often suffer from a lack of appreciation of how specific circumstances and contexts act as catalysts in shaping, accelerating and exemplifying novel trends and solutions in surveillance matters. Exploring the role of the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics Dr C. William R. Webster ; Stirling Management School, University of Stirling E-mail: c.w.r.webster@stir.ac.uk Dr Francisco R. Klauser ; Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel E-mail: francisco.klauser@unine.ch Eric Töpfer ; Centre for Technology and Society, Technische Universität Berlin E-mail: toepfer@emato.de Professor Charles D. Raab School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh E-mail: c.d.raab@ed.ac.uk Editors : 1 Published in Information Polity 17, issue 1, 1-5, 2012 which should be used for any reference to this work