Surveillance society : monitoring everyday life / David Lyon.
"This text takes a post-privacy approach to surveillance with a fresh look at the relations between technology and society. It examines the constant computer-based scrutiny of ordinary daily life for citizens and consumers as they participate in contemporary societies. It argues that to underst...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia :
Open University,
2001.
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| Series: | Issues in society.
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| Summary: | "This text takes a post-privacy approach to surveillance with a fresh look at the relations between technology and society. It examines the constant computer-based scrutiny of ordinary daily life for citizens and consumers as they participate in contemporary societies. It argues that to understand what is happening we have to go beyond Orwellian alarms and cries for more privacy to see how such surveillance also reinforces divisions by sorting people into social categories. The issues spill over narrow policy and legal boundaries to generate responses at several levels including local consumer groups, Internet activism, and international social movements."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 189 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 033520547X 9780335205479 0335205461 9780335205462 |