iSpy
Subtitle: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (CultureAmerica)
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: September 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780700615285
Subjects: Communication Studies; Political control & freedoms; Sport & leisure industries; Computers; Computers - General Information; Technology & Industrial Arts; Computer Books: General; USA; Information Technology; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Social Aspects - Human-Computer Interaction; Social Aspects - General; Information society; Interactive multimedia; Social aspects
Description: "Whether you're purchasing groceries with your Safeway "club card" or casting a vote on American Idol, that data is being collected. From Amazon to iTunes, cell phones to GPS devices, Google to TiVo - all of these products and services give us an expansive sense of choice, access, and participation. But in an era now marked by large-scale NSA operations that secretly monitor our email exchanges and Internet surfing, Mark Andrejevic shows how these new technologies are increasingly employed as modes of surveillance and control."--Jacket.