Surveillance - A Very Short Introduction

Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. This book shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores the pressing ethical questions surrounding it.

List of contents

• 1: Visible lives: invisible watchers


• 2: Visible lives: invisible watchers


• 3: Surveillance technologies in context


• 4: Data-driven surveillance: new challenges


• 5: Surveillance culture: an everyday reality


• 6: Questioning surveillance: critical probes


• 7: Encountering surveillance: What to do?


• 7: Surveillance: an optics of hope


• Further Reading


• Index

About the author

David Lyon is former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Law at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He has directed several large-scale international research projects on surveillance, and has authored or edited a number of books, including The Culture of Surveillance (2018) and Surveillance after Snowden (2025). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008.

Summary

Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. This book shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores the pressing ethical questions surrounding it.

Product details

• Authors: David Lyon, Professor David (Former Director of the Surv Lyon, Professor David (Professor Lyon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2024
• EAN: 9780198796848
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879684-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Society & culture: general, Politics & government, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Society and culture: general, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms