The Electronic Eye: the Rise of Surveillance Society, by David Lyon

Abstract

Lyon looks into our mediated way of life, where every transaction and phone call, border crossing, vote, and application registers in some computer, to show how electronic surveillance influences social order in our day. Introduction: body, soul and credit card -- Surveillance in modern society -- New surveillance technologies -- From big brother to the electronic panopticon -- The surveillance state: keeping tabs on you -- The surveillance state: from tabs to tags -- The transparent worker -- The targeted consumer -- Challenging surveillance -- Privacy, power, persons -- Against dystopia, distance, division -- Beyond postmodern paranoia.