Many contend that our proliferating interactive media empower individuals and democratize society. “A hard-hitting critique, tempered by an ironic sense of humor.” -David Lyon, author of Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life See fewer reviews. This is a sharp-eyed, sharp-elbowed tour of a darker world.” -Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism “Do not mistake this book for another rose-colored glimpse of the digital future. Solove, author of The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age “A vivid and compelling account of how interactivity appears to be enhancing our power yet in fact is increasing the power of others to watch over us and control us.” -Daniel J. While not showing an easy way out, since most of us are already within the ‘digital enclosure,’ this book cannot help but be relevant to a popular readership as well. This book will be of special interest to students and established scholars in surveillance studies and Foucault-inspired studies of governance, but also those in communication studies more broadly. “Few interactive stones are left unturned in a work that is not only well researched but also remarkably up-to-date, a feature undoubtedly difficult to accomplish given the incredibly rapid pace of technological change and function creep. “A provocative and readable romp through the contemporary U.S.
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Andrejevic challenges us to think carefully about the ways in which interactive technologies have been all-too-easily aligned with technological progress, democracy, free speech, and political emancipation and decides to probe the darker sides of digitization. “Eloquently structured and sharply argued.
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Lively, well written, and full of examples, this is an essential book that should lead to many interesting discussions.” - Choice Many other books have examined personal privacy in the digital world-among them, Solove’s The Digital Person and OHarrow’s No Place to Hide-but Andrejevic’s emphasis on individuals’ complicity makes this a unique, compelling read. “This is a book that everyone should read. But, in an era now marked by large-scale NSA operations that secretly monitor our email exchanges and internet surfing, Mark Andrejevic shows how these new technologies are increasingly employed as modes of surveillance and control.
From Amazon to iTunes, cell phones to GPS devices, Google to TiVo-all of these products and services give us an expansive sense of choice, access, and participation. Whether you're purchasing groceries with your Safeway "club card" or casting a vote on American Idol, that data is being collected.
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