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Windows into the Soul (Paperback)
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We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and
public lives are increasingly on display for governments,
merchants, employers, hackers-and the merely curious-to see. In
Windows into the Soul, Gary T. Marx, a central figure in the
rapidly expanding field of surveillance studies, argues that
surveillance itself is neither good nor bad, but that context and
comportment make it so. In this landmark book, Marx sums up a
lifetime of work on issues of surveillance and social control by
disentangling and parsing the empirical richness of watching and
being watched. Using fictional narratives as well as the findings
of social science, Marx draws on decades of studies of covert
policing, computer profiling, location and work monitoring, drug
testing, caller identification, and much more, Marx gives us a
conceptual language to understand the new realities and his work
clearly emphasizes the paradoxes, trade-offs, and confusion
enveloping the field. Windows into the Soul shows how surveillance
can penetrate our social and personal lives in profound, and
sometimes harrowing, ways. Ultimately, Marx argues, recognizing
complexity and asking the right questions is essential to bringing
light and accountability to the darker, more iniquitous corners of
our emerging surveillance society.
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