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Surveillance Studies (Paperback)
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Surveillance Studies (Paperback)
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The study of surveillance is more relevant than ever before. The
fast growth of the field of surveillance studies reflects both the
urgency of civil liberties and privacy questions in the war on
terror era and the classical social science debates over the power
of watching and classification, from Bentham to Foucault and
beyond. In this overview, David Lyon, one of the pioneers of
surveillance studies, fuses with aplomb classical debates and
contemporary examples to provide the most accessible and up-to-date
introduction to surveillance available.
The book takes in surveillance studies in all its breadth, from
local face-to-face oversight through technical developments in
closed-circuit TV, radio frequency identification and biometrics to
global trends that integrate surveillance systems internationally.
Surveillance is understood in its ambiguity, from caring to
controlling, and the role of visibility of the surveilled is taken
as seriously as the powers of observing, classifying and judging.
The book draws on international examples and on the insights of
several disciplines; sociologists, political scientists and
geographers will recognize key issues from their work here, but so
will people from media, culture, organization, technology and
policy studies. This illustrates the diverse strands of thought and
critique available, while at the same time the book makes its own
distinct contribution and offers tools for evaluating both
surveillance trends and the theories that explain them.
This book is the perfect introduction for anyone wanting to
understand surveillance as a phenomenon and the tools for analysing
it further, and will be essential reading for students andscholars
alike.
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