Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
ISBN:
9780816686131
Content:
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.
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816625130
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lyon, David, 1948 - The electronic eye Minneapolis, Mn. : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1994 ISBN 0816625131
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0816625158
Additional Edition:
Print version Electronic Eye : The Rise of Surveillance Society
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
;
Überwachung
;
Elektronik
;
Electronic books
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
