Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society
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Every day precise details of our personal lives are collected, stored, retrieved, and processed within huge computer databases belonging to big corporations and government departments. Although no one may be spying, strangers do know intimate things about us, often without our knowing what they know, why they know it, or who shares this information. This is the surveillance society. In The Electronic Eye, David Lyon looks into our mediated way of life, where every transaction and phone call, border-crossing, vote, and application registers in some computer, to show how electronic surveillance influences social order in our day.
The increasing impact of computers on modern societies is seen by some as very promising, but by others as menacing in the extreme. The Electronic Eye is a genuine contribution to the understanding of modern institutions in an era of globalizing electronic communication.ContentsPrefaceSituating Surveillance Introduction: Body, Soul and Credit Card Surveillance in Modern Society New Surveillance Technologies From Big Brother to the Electronic PanopticonSurveillance Trends The Surveillance State: Keeping Tabs on You The Surveillance State: From Tabs to Tags The Transparent Worker The Targeted ConsumerCounter-Surveillance Challenging Surveillance Privacy, Power, Persons Against Dystopia, Distance, Division Beyond Postmodern ParanoiaFormat:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0816625158
ISBN13:9780816625154
Release Date:March 1994
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:290 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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The best survilance book ever.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
El autor hace una mirada objetiva respecto de el auge de la sociedad de la información y junto a ella una apreciacion etica de los problemas que conlleva la vigilancia del consumidor en el capitalismo posmoderno. Hace ademas un analisis Foucaultiano de los fenomenos de vigilancia y estudia la teoria de la vigilancia en Bentham, con su Panoptico.
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