Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction

by David Lyon

Overview

Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. This book shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores the pressing ethical questions surrounding it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192516985
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	06/25/2024
Series:	Very Short Introductions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Lyon is former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Law at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He has directed several large-scale international research projects on surveillance, and has authored or edited a number of books, including The Culture of Surveillance (2018) and Surveillance after Snowden (2025). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008.

Table of Contents

1. Visible lives: invisible watchers2. Visible lives: invisible watchers3. Surveillance technologies in context4. Data-driven surveillance: new challenges5. Surveillance culture: an everyday reality6. Questioning surveillance: critical probes7. Encountering surveillance: What to do? 7. Surveillance: an optics of hopeFurther ReadingIndex