Informationen zum Autor William G. Staples is professor of sociology and founding director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. He is author or editor of several books, including the Encyclopedia of Privacy and Castles of Our Consciousness, both CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, and Power, Profits, and Patriarchy, winner of an American Sociological Association Section Book Award. Klappentext Everyday Surveillance is a provocative exploration of the myriad ways we are watched each dayfrom internet use to public video camerasand how this surveillance shapes our lives. The second edition considers new topics, such as the rise of social media, and updates research throughout. This insightful and wonderfully accessible book shows how surveillance has radically transformed just about every aspect of social life. Whether at home, school, work, or in online worlds, surveillance defines and mediates our experiences. This completely revised edition of Everyday Surveillance is the perfect guide for making sense of these changes and their consequences. -- Torin Monahan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Zusammenfassung Everyday Surveillance is a provocative exploration of the myriad ways we are watched each dayfrom internet use to public video camerasand how this surveillance shapes our lives. The second edition considers new topics, such as the rise of social media, and updates research throughout. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Second Edition 1. Everyday Surveillance 2. The Scaffold, the Penitentiary, And Beyond 3. The Gaze and Its Compulsions 4. Bodily Intrusions 5. WIRED.I.AM: The Digital Life 2.0 6. The Anatomy of Visibility Endnotes Selected References Index About the Author

Klappentext

Everyday Surveillance is a provocative exploration of the myriad ways we are watched each day—from internet use to public video cameras—and how this surveillance shapes our lives. The second edition considers new topics, such as the rise of social media, and updates research throughout.

Inhalt

Preface to the Second Edition

1. Everyday Surveillance
2. The Scaffold, the Penitentiary, And Beyond
3. The Gaze and Its Compulsions
4. Bodily Intrusions
5. WIRED.I.AM: The Digital Life 2.0
6. The Anatomy of Visibility
   Endnotes
   Selected References
   Index
   About the Author