Surveillance Studies: An Overview

The examine of surveillance is extra related than ever earlier than. The quick development of the sphere of surveillance research displays each the urgency of civil liberties and privateness questions within the conflict on terror period and the classical social science debates over the facility of watching and classification, from Bentham to Foucault and past. On this overview, David Lyon, one of many pioneers of surveillance research, fuses with aplomb classical debates and up to date examples to supply probably the most accessible and up-to-date introduction to surveillance accessible.

The guide takes in surveillance research in all its breadth, from native face-to-face oversight by technical developments in closed-circuit TV, radio frequency identification and biometrics to international developments that combine surveillance techniques internationally. Surveillance is known in its ambiguity, from caring to controlling, and the function of visibility of the surveilled is taken as significantly because the powers of observing, classifying and judging. The guide attracts on worldwide examples and on the insights of a number of disciplines; sociologists, political scientists and geographers will acknowledge key points from their work right here, however so will folks from media, tradition, group, expertise and coverage research. This illustrates the various strands of thought and critique accessible, whereas on the similar time the guide makes its personal distinct contribution and provides instruments for evaluating each surveillance developments and the theories that specify them.

This guide is the proper introduction for anybody wanting to grasp surveillance as a phenomenon and the instruments for analysing it additional, and will probably be important studying for college students and students alike.

Writer ‏ : ‎ Polity
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 30, 2007
Version ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 074563592X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0745635927
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches