Overview

The field of surveillance studies is growing at a rapid rate, fuelled by a growing interest in the questions that lie at its heart and a deep unease about the future of individual privacy. What information is held about us, to what extent that information is secure, how new technologies ought to be regulated, and how developments in surveillance will affect our ordinary and everyday lives? Deliberately multi-disciplinary in character, this book examines these questions from the perspective of a broad range of fields, including sociology, management research, law, literary analysis and internet studies. As privacy comes under increasing threat and surveillance activities grow in quantity and diversity, so too the academic field needs to develop in new directions, form new perspectives, and gain new insights. In keeping with this aim, the chapters of this book consider how individuals, organisations, and states are engaged in the compilation, mobilization, scrutiny and use of ever increasing amounts of information. Divided into three sections focusing in turn on legal regulation, technologies of surveillance, and the future of privacy and surveillance, this collection provides a unique and eclectic insight into the question of how the spread of surveillance is changing our lives and the societies in which we live.

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Author:   Benjamin J. Goold ,  Daniel Neyland (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Willan Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781843923633

ISBN 10:   1843923637
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'[T[he book is a timely intervention. ... The chapters of the book are very contemporary, capturing a picture of issues in surveillance and privacy as they currently stand. The book moves beyond critique and several chapters contain proposald for regulatory or technological measures to counter the diminution of privacy and control over personal information.' - David Barnard-Wills, Cranfield University in Information, Community and Society

'[T[he book is a timely intervention. ... The chapters of the book are very contemporary, capturing a picture of issues in surveillance and privacy as they currently stand. The book moves beyond critique and several chapters contain proposald for regulatory or technological measures to counter the diminution of privacy and control over personal information.' - David Barnard-Wills, Cranfield University in Information, Community and Society

Author Information

Benjamin Goold is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, and a Research Associate at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology. His major research interests are in the use of surveillance technology by the police and the relationship between individual privacy rights and the criminal law. Daniel Neyland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University. His research interests incorporate issues of privacy, surveillance, trust, identity, governance and accountability.

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