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University of Minnesota Press
- Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society
- Book
- 1994
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
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. Contents Preface Situating Surveillance Introduction: Body, Soul and Credit Card Surveillance in Modern Society New Surveillance Technologies From Big Brother to the Electronic Panopticon Surveillance Trends The Surveillance State: Keeping Tabs on You The Surveillance State: From Tabs to Tags The Transparent Worker The Targeted Consumer Counter-Surveillance Challenging Surveillance Privacy, Power, Persons Against Dystopia, Distance, Division Beyond Postmodern Paranoia
Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgements
- pp. viii-x
- I: SITUATING SURVEILLANCE
- 2 Surveillance in Modern Society
- pp. 22-39
- 3 New Surveillance Technologies
- pp. 40-56
- II: SURVEILLANCE TRENDS
- 6 The Surveillance State: From Tabs to Tags
- pp. 102-118
- 7 The Transparent Worker
- pp. 119-135
- 8 The Targeted Consumer
- pp. 136-158
- III: COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE
- 9 Challenging Surveillance
- pp. 161-178
- 10 Privacy, Power, Persons
- pp. 179-198
- 11 Against Dystopia, Distance, Division
- pp. 199-217
- 12 Beyond Postmodern Paranoia
- pp. 218-225
- Select Bibliography
- pp. 258-266
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816686131
Related ISBN(s)
9780816625154
MARC Record
OCLC
85893689
Pages
290
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No