Title: Globalization and surveillance /
Authors: Ström, Timothy Erik, 1985-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Electronic surveillance; Globalization; Privacy, Right of; Personal information management; Electronic surveillance; Globalization; Personal information management; Privacy, Right of
Abstract: "This book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization and globalization through the lens of surveillance. Ström traces the state's increasing control over its citizens and critically examines the social meaning and consequences of surveillance and globalization"--
Contents: Prelude: "You're in control" -- Surveying surveillance : overseers, enclosures and colonization -- The atom and the watchtower : cybernetic, war and the reorganization of the world -- Welcome to the machine : Google's commodification-engines and the web of power -- The overlords of automated debt : China, usury, and the financialization of the South -- Conclusion: The limits of control : accumulation, solidarity and possibilities.