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Author: Oscar H. Gandy Jr. (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, Pennsylvia University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 24.30cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.721kg
ISBN: 9780197579411
ISBN 10: 0197579418
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 22 July 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Surveillance capitalism may have been birthed by Google but its gestation began towards the end of the twentieth century. This welcome reissue and update of Oscar Gandy's signal classic, The Panoptic Sort, comes with a luminous afterword, connecting digital discrimination in the 'dot-coms' with the exploitative activities of today's platforms. Their inequitable global challenge is unflinchingly explained along with hints of hope for a fairer future. - David Lyon, Director, The Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University Thirty years ago, one might have thought, The Panoptic Sort, a brilliant concept, mainly of academic interest. Time has revealed its deadly precision - time lost to ravaging surveillance, incipient schemes for sorting people out, and the rise of a class of powerful controllers. In the Second Edition, Oscar Gandy offers a reprise, including a generous review of thirty years of work, which * it must be said - now, only, is catching up with his groundbreaking ideas. The book is invaluable for every discipline, every stripe of public good activist, and every policy-maker around the globe. -Helen Nissenbaum, Professor, Cornell University * A masterful book of undisputed importance, The Panoptic Sort examines the forebearers of today's surveillance regimes. At a time when society is being asked to reckon with discriminatory technologies of power, Gandy's seminal work equips us with the tools to understand-and challenge-sociotechnical systems of control. -Seeta Pena Gangadharan, Associate Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Author Information
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. began as a lecturer in communications at the Third College at UC San Diego, served as assistant and associate professor of communication at Howard University. He served as associate and full professor at the Annenberg School of the University of Pennsylvania, achieving emeritus status in 2006. His teaching throughout his career has been primarily in the area of the political economy of communication and information, with an emphasis on communication and race and surveillance and privacy.
