Deborah G. (Hrsg.) Johnson

Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability

A House of Mirrors

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Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed, transparency is often seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices and transparency practices together as parallel systems of accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework for understanding surveillance and transparency prac… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Regan, Priscilla M. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-63186-6
EAN: 9781317631866
Produktnummer: 17043869
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 202 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'236 KB
Abbildungen: 8 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 8 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor

Deborah G. Johnson is Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at University of Virginia.Priscilla M. Regan is Professor in the Department of Public & International Affairs at George Mason University.