Surveillance
A Very Short Introduction
$29.81
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
7 August 2024
Summary
Surveillance permeates every aspect of our lives today. Once a more limited and often remote aspect of social life, today surveillance is central to political, economic, and everyday life. Every click on the keyboard, every call, text or email, every purchase, every contact with a doctor or the police or a government department, each time you walk under a video camera or pass through a security check, and in many other ways, you are recorded, identified, traced, and tracked. Who processes thi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198796848 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198796846 |
| Author: | Professor David Lyon, David Lyon |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 7 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 110mm x 175mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Professor David Lyon
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.
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