Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society

by David Lyon

Book Overview

Every day precise details of our personal lives are collected, stored, retrieved, and processed within huge computer databases belonging to big corporations and government departments. Although no one may be spying, strangers do know intimate things about us, often without our knowing what they know, why they know it, or who shares this information. This is the surveillance society. In The Electronic Eye, David Lyon looks into our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816625158
• ISBN13: 9780816625154
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The best survilance book ever.

El autor hace una mirada objetiva respecto de el auge de la sociedad de la información y junto a ella una apreciacion etica de los problemas que conlleva la vigilancia del consumidor en el capitalismo posmoderno. Hace ademas un analisis Foucaultiano de los fenomenos de vigilancia y estudia la teoria de la vigilancia en Bentham, con su Panoptico.