Surveillance - society - culture
"What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individu...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Berlin
Peter Lang
2019
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Schriftenreihe: | Contributions to English and American literary studies
vol. 3 |
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Zusammenfassung: | "What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society. The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance. American companies are at the forefront of developing surveillance technologies; and government agencies, in the name of security and law and order, are monitoring our words and actions more than ever before. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the implications of what many consider to be a far-reaching reaching social, political, and cultural transformation"-- |
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Beschreibung: | "This volume, which consists of selected papers from the Surveillance, Society, Culture conference held at the University of Göttingen in 2016..." (Seite 11) |
Beschreibung: | 243 Seiten Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9783631798812 978-3-631-79881-2 |