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Praise for Everyday Surveillance “This insightful and wonderfully accessible book shows how surveillance has radically transformedjustabouteveryaspectofsociallife.Whetherathome,school,work,orin onlineworlds,surveillancedefinesandmediatesourexperiences.Thiscompletelyrevised editionofEverydaySurveillanceistheperfectguideformakingsenseofthesechanges andtheirconsequences.”—TorinMonahan,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill “GeorgeOrwellwaswrong.Themodernproblemofsurveillanceisn’tBigBrotherbutthe thousands upon thousands of ‘Tiny Brothers’ that record and track our daily existence. William G. Staples offers a compelling account of the rise of private surveillance— complementingbutalsocomplicatingthewatchfuleyeoftheState—andtheequanimity withwhichthishasbeengreetedbythepublic.”—SimonChesterman,dean,National UniversityofSingaporeFacultyofLaw “Staplesblendssophisticatedsocialtheorizingwithakeeneyefortheminutewaysthat surveillance touches our day-to-day lives. In the process he brings to light the often otherwiseinvisiblepowersofcontemporarymonitoringpractices.”—KevinD.Hagger- ty,UniversityofAlberta “Through incisive analysis, Everyday Surveillance charts the various ways that surveil- lance shapes the postmodern moment: from the routinized gathering of data by ‘smart’ technologieswhenweshop,work,travel,orprotest,tonewcategoriesofpunishmentthat blur the line between incarceration and freedom—where those under house arrest are subject to ‘participatory monitoring’ with the expectation that they come to supervise themselves.Throughinterviewsandobservations,Staplesoffersa‘sociologyofthepost- modern’thatisawide-ranging,historicallygrounded,andtheoreticallyinformedengage- mentwiththetechniquesofsurveillanceandsocialcontrol.”—SimoneBrowne,Univer- sityofTexasatAustin “The beauty of this book? It’s true to its title. Surveillance is demystified. It’s not an occasionalorremoteoccurrencebutanintrinsicaspectofalloureverydaylives.Weare challengedtounderstandandcometotermswithacultureofsurveillanceinwhich‘Big Brotherisus.’Staplesguidesusbetweenthemultifacetedvigilanceofdigitalsystemsand the enhanced visibility of our mundane life-paths, noting subtle shifts from modern to postmodern practices. This book deftly draws attention to the key questions that we discounttoourdetriment.”—DavidLyon,Queen’sUniversity,Canada “Thisbookisverywellwritten....Itoffersafascinatingchronicleoftheragetoinvent newformsofsurveillance,aswellaspithyconceptualizationsthatorganizetheempirical materialsnicely.Assuch,itclearlymeetsStaples’sstatedgoalofprovidinganaccessible undergraduatetextbook.”—SocialForces(praiseforapreviousedition) “ThesuggestionmadebyEverydaySurveillancethata‘quietrevolution’isoccurringin whichwearealltargetsisathought-provokingone.Itremindsusthatweallarerespon- sible for encouraging surveillance by being seduced by its promises, fearing the conse- quences without it, and heralding it as society’s salvation. The book flags some new directions in which the study of visual, informational, and communication technologies mightprofitablyhead.”—BritishJournalofCriminology(praiseforapreviousedition) Everyday Surveillance Everyday Surveillance Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life Second Edition William G. Staples ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder •NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2014byWilliamG.Staples Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Staples,WilliamG. Everydaysurveillance:vigilanceandvisibilityinpostmodernlife/WilliamG.Staples.—Second edition. pagescm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7425-4109-2(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-0-7425-4110-8(pbk.:alk.paper)— ISBN978-1-4422-2629-6(electronic) 1.Socialcontrol—UnitedStates.2.Electronicsurveillance—Socialaspects—UnitedStates.3.Unit- edStates—Socialconditions—1980–4.Privacy—UnitedStates.I.Title. HN59.2.S6982014 323.44'820973—dc23 2013022176 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ForLizette,stillandalways,mybravecompanionoftheroad
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