Description
Book Synopsis
- In what ways does contemporary surveillance reinforce social divisions?
- How are police and consumer surveillance becoming more similar as they are automated?
- Are we forced to choose between classical and poststructuralist approaches in explaining surveillance?
- Why is surveillance both expanding globally and focusing more on the human body?
Surveillance Society takes a post-privacy approach to surveillance with a fresh look at the relations between technology and society. Personal data is collected from us all the time, whether we know it or not, through identity numbers, camera images, or increasingly by other means such as fingerprint and retinal scans. This book 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
Table of ContentsSeries editor's foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Part one: Surveillance societies
Disappearing bodies
Invisible frameworks
Leaky containers
Part two: The spread of surveillance
Surveillant sorting in the city
Body parts and probes
Global dataflows
Part three: Surveillance scenarios
New directions in theory
The politics of surveillance
The future of surveillance
Bibliography
Index.
