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We Live In An Age Saturated With Surveillance. Our Personal And Public Lives Are Increasingly On Display For Governments, Merchants, Employers, Hackers—and The Merely Curious—to See. In Windows Into The Soul, Gary T. Marx, A Central Figure In The Rapidly Expanding Field Of Surveillance Studies, Argues That Surveillance Itself Is Neither Good Nor Bad, But That Context And Comportment Make It So. In This Landmark Book, Marx Sums Up A Lifetime Of Work On Issues Of Surveillance And Social Control By Disentangling And Parsing The Empirical Richness Of Watching And Being Watched. Using Fictional Narratives As Well As The Findings Of Social Science, Marx Draws On Decades Of Studies Of Covert Policing, Computer Profiling, Location And Work Monitoring, Drug Testing, Caller Identification, And Much More, Marx Gives Us A Conceptual Language To Understand The New Realities And His Work Clearly Emphasizes The Paradoxes, Trade-offs, And Confusion Enveloping The Field. Windows Into The Soul Shows How Surveillance Can Penetrate Our Social And Personal Lives In Profound, And Sometimes Harrowing, Ways. Ultimately, Marx Argues, Recognizing Complexity And Asking The Right Questions Is Essential To Bri

Author

Marx, Gary T., author

Publisher

Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226285887

Subjects

Sociology, Technology, Social_sciences