This double issue covers the vast terrain of surveillance and its relationships to children and childhood. The articles are grouped as follows:

1. Overview of surveillance tools (Marx & Steeves)
2. Surveillance and Parenting (Henderson, Harmon & Houser)
3. Surveillance in Schools (Sparrman & Lindgren; Gallagher; McCahill & Finn)
4. Surveillance of Children in Care/At Risk (McIntosh et al.; Osmond)
5. Concluding article on impact of surveillance on trust (Rooney)

The relationship between the visual arts and surveillance has been explored through large scale exhibitions (CTRL:Space, ZKM), and texts such as Loving Big Brother (McGrath, 2004) have introduced questions of performance and performativity into the surveillance debate. However, as the technological possibilities available to artists grow, and the social impact of surveillance is increasingly recognized, there is a need for a thorough examination of the uses of surveillance in the visual arts, particularly in the genres of new media and performance art, where issues regarding technological engagement and embodiment come to the fore. This special issue of Surveillance & Society presents papers and works that examine the complexities of surveillance in new media and performance art.

Some additional material accompanies this issue on the artists' own websites, as well as the stills from Jordan Crandall's project, HOMEFRONT on our Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/surveillance_and_society/sets/72157624083983201/show/

Guest Editors: Laura Huey and Luis A. Fernandez

*With a special Review section on the UK House of Lords Constitution Committee report, Surveillance: Citizens and the State

This issue is the first on our new website, powered by the Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal System. This deepens Surveillance & Society's commitment to Open Source and Open Access.

This Relaunch Issue not only revisits one of the key contemporary technologies of surveillance, CCTV, by placing it in deeper historical context, but also reconsiders the past, present and future of Surveillance Studies. There are also 15 reviews of recent books in the area of surveillance, and the first use of our new Blip TV video stream (EDITOR'S NOTE 2014: now removed without notification) which we hope to expand in the futue. We hope you enjoy it. If you do, please consider joining the Surveillance Studies Network to help support the journal and our other activities.

The Editors.