David Lyon

The Electronic Eye

The Rise of Surveillance Society - Computers and Social Control in Context

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

aeo This book provides an overview of the role of computers and information in modern societies. aeo It is strongly comparative using illustrative data from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Sweden and other countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 228mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780745612683
• ISBN-10: 0745612687
• Artikelnr.: 23414766

Autorenporträt

David Lyon is Professor and Head of Department of Sociology at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of several books including The Information Society (Polity, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements.
Part I: Situating Surveillance:.
1. Introduction: Body, Soul and Credit Card.
2. Surveillance in Modern Society.
3. New Surveillance Technologies.
4. From Big Brother to the Electronic Panopticon.
Part II: Surveillance Trends:.
5. The Surveillance State: Keeping Tabs on You.
6. The Surveillance State: From Tabs to Tags.
7. The Transparent Worker.
8. The Targetted Consumer.
Part III: Counter-Surveillance:.
9. Challenging Surveillance.
10. Privacy, Power, Persons.
11. Against Dystopia, Distance, Division.
12. Beyond Postmodern Paranoia.
Bibliography.
Index.