Surveillance Studies - A Reader

In Surveillance Studies: A Reader provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field of surveillance studies. The book offers selections of key historical and theoretical texts, samples of the best empirical research done on surveillance, introductions to debates about privacy and power, and cutting-edge treatments of art, film, and literature.

About the author

Torin Monahan is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and author of SuperVision: An Introduction tothe Surveillance Society, Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity, and Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education.

David Murakami Wood is Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies and Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Queens University in Ontario. He is also co-founder and Managing Editor of Surveillance & Society and co-founder and trustee of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN).

Summary

In Surveillance Studies: A Reader provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field of surveillance studies. The book offers selections of key historical and theoretical texts, samples of the best empirical research done on surveillance, introductions to debates about privacy and power, and cutting-edge treatments of art, film, and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Torin Monahan, Torin (Associate Professor of Communicati Monahan
• Assisted by: Torin Monahan (Editor), Monahan Torin (Editor), David Murakami Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780190297817
• ISBN: 978-0-19-029781-7
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general