Opis: Windows into the Soul - Gary Marx

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 bringing light and accountability to the darker, more iniquitous corners of our emerging surveillance society. For better and for worse, surveillance is now central to politics and our lives, and Marx s magisterial survey is essential to understanding its multiple forms and facets.Simultaneously personal and learned, it is full of ideas and connections. To call it eye-opening would not only be too much of a pun but would be an understatement it is mind-opening. Marx gives us no easy answers, but ensures that we will ask better questions. --Robert Jervis "author of Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War ""

Szczegóły: Windows into the Soul - Gary Marx

Tytuł: Windows into the Soul
Autor: Gary Marx
Wydawnictwo: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226285917
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 400
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.59 kg

Recenzje: Windows into the Soul - Gary Marx