Windows into the soul : surveillance and society in an age of high technology / Gary T. Marx.

Author/creator Marx, Gary T. author.
Format Book
PublicationChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Descriptionxxii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.
Electronic surveillance--Moral and ethical aspects.
Technology--Social aspects.

Contents Concepts: the need for a modest but persistent analyticity -- Defining the terms of surveillance studies -- So what's new? : classifying means for change and continuity -- So what's old?: classifying goals for continuity and change -- The stuff of surveillance: varieties of personal information -- Social processes -- Social processes in surveillance -- A tack in the shoe and taking the shoe off: resistance and counters to resistance -- Culture and contexts -- Work: the omniscient organization measures everything that moves -- Children: slap that baby's bottom, embed that ID chip, and let it begin -- The private within the public: psychological report on Tom I. Voire -- A mood apart: what's wrong with Tom? -- Government and more: a speech by Hon. Rocky Bottoms to the Society for the Advancement of Professional Surveillance -- Ethics and policy -- Techno-fallacies of the information age -- An ethics for the new (and old) surveillance -- Windows into hearts and souls: clear, tinted, or opaque today? -- Appendix: a note on values: neither technophobe nor technophile.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 359-387) and index.
LCCN 2015037631
ISBN9780226285887 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN022628588X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226285917 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN022628591X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HM846 .M27 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold