Privacy, Surveillance, and the New Media You

Very little in the American way of life functions adequately under surveillance. Democracy itself may be at mortal risk due to the loss of privacy and the increase in surveillance.
Examining challenges in a wide range of contexts, this book investigates and critically examines our systems of data management, including the ways that data are collected, exchanged, analyzed, and re-purposed.
The volume calls for re-establishing personal privacy as a societal norm and priority, requiring action on the part of everyone at personal, societal, business, and governmental levels. Because new media products and services are professionally designed and implemented to be frictionless and highly rewarding, change is difficult and solutions are not easy. This volume provides insight into challenges and recommended solutions.

About the author

Edward Lee Lamoureux (Ph.D., University of Oregon) is a Professor at Bradley University. He is lead co-author of Intellectual Property Law and Interactive Media: Free for a Fee. (2015, 2nd edition). He served as editor of the Journal of Communication and Religion from 1998-2003.

Summary

Examining challenges in a wide range of contexts, this book investigates and critically examines our systems of data management, including the ways that data are collected, exchanged, analyzed, and re-purposed.

Report

«Lamoureux's book shines a bright spotlight into the dark corners of data tracking, surveillance, and invasions of privacy. For anyone who uses social media or the web, and that's most of us, his work gives a better understanding of the current state of privacy practices and a roadmap toward greater accountability.»
(Larry Clark, Washington State Magazine August 2017)

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Product details

• Authors: Edward Lee Lamoureux, Lamoureux Edward Lee
• Assisted by: Steve Jones (Editor), Steve Jones (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781433124945
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-2494-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Series: Digital Formations; Digital Formations
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication; USA, Big Data, Media, Media Studies, Edward Snowden, Edward, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Privacy, right to be forgotten, LAW / Privacy, JONES, Surveillance, Steve, intelligence, United States of America, USA, Ethical issues & debates, New Media, Personal Data, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Privacy law, data marketplace, Ethical issues, topics and debates, Lamoureux, Fair Information Practices, National Security Agency (NSA)