SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
"An invaluable Rough Guide to our rapidly developing surveillance society. John Gilliom and Torin Monahan chart the pitfalls and the potentials of emerging monitoring practices in an engaging fashion, pointing out some of the more colorful examples along the way. Above all, the book forces all of us fish in the bowl to confront the universal medium we are swimming in: the pervasive practices of  surveillance that have colonized our world, from workplace to social space, in the name of efficiency, productivity, and security."--Mark Andrejevic, University of Queensland"SuperVisiondoes an excellent job of both accentuating how surveillance now penetrates almost every sphere of our existence and raising some of the most pressing social and political questions of our age."--Kevin Haggerty, University of Alberta"John Gilliom and Torin Monahan unveil the purposes and implications of the surveillance practices embedded in the technologies we have come to take for granted and increasingly rely upon in our daily lives. Their examination of the evolution and social meaning of surveillance in a range of contexts is important reading and their 'ten big ideas' provide a set of valuable principles that readers can use intelligently in traversing their everyday lives."--Priscilla Regan, George Mason University