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Electronic Eye : The Rise of Surveillance Society

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994 [©1994.]

1 online resource (281 pages)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: The electronic eye / Lyon, David (Druck-Ausgabe)

Print version: Electronic Eye : The Rise of Surveillance Society

978-0-8166-8613-1

978-0-8166-2513-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

MF 9500      Ähnliche Literatur

TK7882.E2L96 1994

303.48/33 ; 303.48/33

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects ; Computers and civilization ; Information technology -- Social aspects

Electronic books ; local ; Computers and civilization ; Electronic surveillance ; Social aspects ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books

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.

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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- I: SITUATING SURVEILLANCE -- 1 Introduction: Body, Soul and Credit Card -- Surveillance in Everyday Life -- Surveillance in Modern Society -- The Social Impact of Technology -- Technology and Totalitarianism -- The Problem of Privacy -- Personhood and Postmodernity -- Understanding Surveillance Society -- 2 Surveillance in Modern Society -- A Prehistory of Surveillance -- Surveillance and Modernity -- The Military, War and Modern Surveillance -- The Nation-State and Modern Surveillance -- Capitalism and Modern Surveillance -- Surveillance, Modernity and Beyond -- 3 New Surveillance Technologies -- From Papermongers to Databanks -- The Difference Technology Makes -- What Do Computers Do? -- New Technology and Surveillance Capacity -- New Technologies: New Surveillance? -- New Surveillance: Evidence and Debate -- 4 From Big Brother to the Electronic Panopticon -- The Police State and the Prison -- Orwell's Dystopia -- The Panopticon from Bentham to Foucault -- Electronic Surveillance: Panoptic Power? -- Evaluating Electronic Panopticism -- Beyond Orwell, Bentham and Foucault -- II: SURVEILLANCE TRENDS -- 5 The Surveillance State: Keeping Tabs on You -- You and Your Data-Image -- The Surveillance State -- A Political Economy of New Surveillance -- New Technologies and Surveillance Capacity -- From Crib to Coffin: Fine-grained Files -- Managing Health Care Spending: The Ontario Health Card -- Administration, Computers and Beyond -- 6 The Surveillance State: From Tabs to Tags -- Spiderman's Solution -- Electronic Identification -- Computers that Converse: Record Linkage -- Police Computers: Command and Control -- Computerizing National Security -- State Surveillance, Citizenship and Globalization -- 7 The Transparent Worker -- Chaplin and Chips -- The Watched Workplace -- Taylorism and Technology.