Transparency and surveillance as sociotechnical accountability a house of mirrors
"Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
Routledge
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in science, technology and society
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed, transparency is often seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices and transparency practices together as parallel systems of accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework for understanding surveillance and transparency practices instrumented with information technology. The volume centers around five case studies: Campaign Finance Disclosure, Secure Flight, American Red Cross, Google, and Facebook. A series of themed chapters draw on the material and provide cross-case analysis. The volume ends with a chapter on policy implications. This volume was produced as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 190 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 1138790737 1-138-79073-7 9781138790735 978-1-138-79073-5 |