The electronic eye : the rise of surveillance society /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lyon, David, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Electronic surveillance > Social aspects.
Computers and civilization.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Surveillance électronique > Aspect social.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
Computers and civilization
Electronic surveillance > Social aspects
Information technology > Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: body, soul and credit card
  • Surveillance in modern society
  • New surveillance technologies
  • From big brother to the electronic panopticon
  • The surveillance state: keeping tabs on you
  • The surveillance state: from tabs to tags
  • The transparent worker
  • The targeted consumer
  • Challenging surveillance
  • Privacy, power, persons
  • Against dystopia, distance, division
  • Beyond postmodern paranoia.

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