<i>Windows into the Soul</i> or the Clouded Glass of Surveillance Studies

McQuade, Brendan

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“…Surveillance is a contested concept, just because it is one of such great significance, especially in the present, and because alternative intellectual and political traditions view it differently. One seemingly intractable issue is whether the associations of surveillance with power and authority mean that its impacts are inescapably negative (Monahan, 2021;Harding, 2018;McQuade, 2018). Given the cognate evidence of how much surveillance continues to be dependent on military-security, rapacious capitalist and white colonial forces, its dubious reputation seems well-deserved.…”

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“…At least three further strands of surveillance research affect how the concept is construed: class, race and gender. Discussions of surveillance capitalism cannot be severed from class relations, (Foster & McChesney, 2014;Mosco, 2014;McQuade, 2018;Fuchs, 2012) and issues of colonialism are inseparable from those of racialisation and surveillance (Benjamin, 2019;Browne, 2015). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning systems designed at the beginning of the pandemic, for example, were hotly debated by civil society and public health researchers, especially with regard to how and whether racial and ethnic data should be used to train modelling algorithms within COVID-19 prediction platforms (Singh, 2020;McKenzie, 2020;Choi et al, 2021).…”

Section: Surveillance: a Multidisciplinary Conceptmentioning

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Surveillance

Lyon¹

2022

Internet Policy Review

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The concept of surveillance is vital for a digital era, especially considering that the term surveillance is several centuries old. It has been modified over time to fit new circumstances. Today, when surveillance has become part of the very infrastructure of contemporary societies, the task of understanding and updating the concept of surveillance is more important than ever. Here, the concept is defined, traced over time, elaborated upon and its current uses discussed. It is shown to be a multi-disciplinary concept, one that requires multi-faceted understanding. Today, the ubiquitous use of smart phones -a key surveillance-enabling device -and the data-analysing capacities of large organisations, public and private, means that the concept has an ongoing life and impact. It is an analytical concept but also a contested and critical one, required for understanding and engaging with our times.

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Surveillance

Lyon¹

2022

Internet Policy Review

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A Satirical (?) Book Review of Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology by its Author

Marx

2019

Am Soc

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Surveillance is neither good nor bad but context and comportment make it so (at least most of the time). G.T. Marx O poor Aristotle! Thou who has discovered for the heretics the art of dialectics, the art of building up and destroying, the art of discussing all things and accomplishing nothing! D.T. Suzuki In 2017 I published Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology. It illustrates the profound and sometimes harrowing ways in which the new surveillance has penetrated and saturated institutional, organizational, social and personal liveswhether involving governments, merchants, employers, families, hackers or the merely curious. The book summarizes and expands on work over many decades dealing with issues of surveillance and social control. It is based on interviews, observation and the social science literature in the U.S., Europe and Asia, but also contains five satirical narratives that seek to convey the lived experience of being watched and a watcher. From an interdisciplinary perspective, and using a variety of methods, the book offers a systematic mapping and middle-range conceptual language to help understand our emerging surveillance society. It disentangles and parses the empirical richness of an emerging surveillance society.

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Windows into the Soul or the Clouded Glass of Surveillance Studies

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