The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life

ISBN-13: 9780745671727 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str.

David Lyon

Opis

From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the headlines. But security and police agencies or internet and phone companies are not the only players. Surveillance is not only 'done to us' - it is something we do in everyday life. We submit to surveillance, believing that 'we have nothing to hide.

Recenzje

A timely exposition of the surveillance imaginaries which run through the contemporary digital realm. Students, scholars, activists and the interested lay reader will find inspiration within its pages.
Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews

David Lyon holds up a mirror to our rapidly developing surveillance society. And if we look hard enough, we can see ourselves. Surveillance culture provides plenty of reasons for concern, but also, as he usefully argues, a possible resource for hope.
Mark Andrejevic, Pomona College

"This book manages to be comprehensive and authoritative in approach, whilst providing a very convincing and accessible account of key shifts in technology and society that underpins the concept of surveillance culture. This makes it both an original and high–quality contribution to the field."
Lina Dencik, Cardiff University, UK

"The Culture of Surveillance provides a nuanced account of contemporary surveillance practices."
Daniel Trottier, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

"David Lyon has long been a powerful witness to the corrosive consequences of contemporary surveillance. This latest work warns how digital modernity s surveillance regimes insinuate themselves into our lives and shape the most intimate qualities of experience. Lyon explores the threat of normalization, calling for resilience and agency against such surveillance and suggesting alternatives. Once again, we are in his debt."
Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School

O autorze

David Lyon is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen′s University, Canada.