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David Lyon

The Electronic Eye

The Rise of Surveillance Society - Computers and Social Control in Context

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The increasing influence of computers in modern societies has been seen by some as offering great promise for the future, but by others as menacing in the extreme. In this work David Lyon investigates the validity of these two opposing points of view. Whether making a phone call, claiming benefits, entering the workplace or using a credit card, more and more daily activities are recorded and traced using what are here called surveillance systems. Computerization vastly expands the surveillance capacity of all forms of organization, including the state, but also extending to the consumer marketplace. By analysing these various contexts of surv… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-7456-7767-5
  • EAN: 9780745677675
  • Produktnummer: 17509643
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 280 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 24'126 KB

Über den Autor


David Lyon is Professor and Head of Department of Sociology at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of several books including The Information Society (Polity, 1988).

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