Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability A House of Mirrors
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
- Author:
- Deborah G. Johnson, Priscilla M. Regan
- ISBN:
- 9781317631873
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781315757001, 9781138790735, 9781138790735, 9781138797611, 9781138797611
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Pages:
- 190
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2020-02-16
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Copyright by:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Sociology, Technology