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Computers, surveillance, and privacy / David Lyon and Elia Zureik, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: viii, 285 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0816626529
  • 9780816626526
  • 0816626537
  • 9780816626533
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4834 22
LOC classification:
  • TK7882.E2 C66 1996
Contents:
Surveillance. privacy, and the new technology / David Lyon and Elia Zureik -- Genetic testing and workplace surveillance: implications for privacy / Priscilla M. Reagan -- Privacy and surveillance in computer-supported cooperative work / Judith A. Perrolle -- High-tech workplace surveillance: what's really new? / James B. Rule -- Social control and the network marketplace / Abbe Mowshowitz -- How the marriage of management and computing intensifies the struggle for personal privacy / Rob Kling and Jonathan P. Allen -- Coming to terms with the panoptic sort / Oscar H. Gandy Jr. -- Privacy: a concept whose time has come and gone / Calvin C. Gotlieb -- Databases as discourse; or, electronic interpellations / Mark Poster -- Electric eye in the sky: some reflections on the new surveillance and popular culture / Gary T. Marx -- The public surveillance of personal data: a cross-national analysis / Colin J. Bennett -- Surveying surveillance: an approach to measuring the extent of surveillance / Simon G. Davies --
1. Surveillance, privacy, and the new technology -- I. Workplace. 2. Genetic testing and workplace surveillance: implications for privacy -- 3. Privacy and surveillance in computer-supported cooperative work -- 4. High-tech workplace surveillance: what's really new? -- II. Marketplace. 5. Social control and network marketplace -- 6. How the marriage of management and computing intensifies the struggle for personal privacy -- 7. Coming to terms with the panoptic sort -- 8. Privacy: a concept whose time has come and gone -- III. Culture. 9. Database as discourse; or, electronic interpellations -- 10. Electric eye in the sky: some reflections on the new surveillance and popular culture -- IV. Regulation. 11. The public surveillance of personal data: a cross-national analysis -- 12. Surveying surveillance: an approach to measuring the extent of surveillance.
Summary: From computer networks to grocery store checkout scanners, it is easier and easier for governments, employers, advertisers, and individuals to gather detailed and sophisticated information about each of us. In this important new collection, the authors question the impact of these new technologies of surveillance on our privacy and our culture. Addressing the global integration of surveillance, social control, new information technologies, privacy violation and protection, and workplace surveillance, the contributors to Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy grapple with the ramifications of these issues for society today. Timely and provocative, this collection will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with resistance to social control and incursions into privacy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Surveillance. privacy, and the new technology / David Lyon and Elia Zureik -- Genetic testing and workplace surveillance: implications for privacy / Priscilla M. Reagan -- Privacy and surveillance in computer-supported cooperative work / Judith A. Perrolle -- High-tech workplace surveillance: what's really new? / James B. Rule -- Social control and the network marketplace / Abbe Mowshowitz -- How the marriage of management and computing intensifies the struggle for personal privacy / Rob Kling and Jonathan P. Allen -- Coming to terms with the panoptic sort / Oscar H. Gandy Jr. -- Privacy: a concept whose time has come and gone / Calvin C. Gotlieb -- Databases as discourse; or, electronic interpellations / Mark Poster -- Electric eye in the sky: some reflections on the new surveillance and popular culture / Gary T. Marx -- The public surveillance of personal data: a cross-national analysis / Colin J. Bennett -- Surveying surveillance: an approach to measuring the extent of surveillance / Simon G. Davies --

1. Surveillance, privacy, and the new technology -- I. Workplace. 2. Genetic testing and workplace surveillance: implications for privacy -- 3. Privacy and surveillance in computer-supported cooperative work -- 4. High-tech workplace surveillance: what's really new? -- II. Marketplace. 5. Social control and network marketplace -- 6. How the marriage of management and computing intensifies the struggle for personal privacy -- 7. Coming to terms with the panoptic sort -- 8. Privacy: a concept whose time has come and gone -- III. Culture. 9. Database as discourse; or, electronic interpellations -- 10. Electric eye in the sky: some reflections on the new surveillance and popular culture -- IV. Regulation. 11. The public surveillance of personal data: a cross-national analysis -- 12. Surveying surveillance: an approach to measuring the extent of surveillance.

From computer networks to grocery store checkout scanners, it is easier and easier for governments, employers, advertisers, and individuals to gather detailed and sophisticated information about each of us. In this important new collection, the authors question the impact of these new technologies of surveillance on our privacy and our culture. Addressing the global integration of surveillance, social control, new information technologies, privacy violation and protection, and workplace surveillance, the contributors to Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy grapple with the ramifications of these issues for society today. Timely and provocative, this collection will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with resistance to social control and incursions into privacy.

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