Transparency and Surveillance As Sociotechnical Accountability - 9781138790735
Un libro in lingua di Johnson Deborah G. (EDT) Regan Priscilla M. (EDT) edito da Taylor & Francis, 2014
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"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"--
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Transparency and Surveillance As Sociotechnical Accountability
- Sottotitolo: A House of Mirrors
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Johnson Deborah G. (EDT) Regan Priscilla M. (EDT)
- Editore: Taylor & Francis
- Collana: Taylor & Francis (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 14 Luglio '14
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Electronic data processing Moral and ethical aspects Electronic surveillance Moral and ethical aspects Government accountability
- Pagine: 190
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 151 x 0
- EAN-13: 9781138790735