Product Description: From computer networks to supermarket checkout scanners, it is easier and easier for governments, employers, advertisers, and individuals to gather detailed and sophisticated information about each of us. In this collection, the authors question the impact of these new technologies of surveillance on our privacy and our culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author of The Information Society looks into the mediated nature of modern society, in which every transaction, phone call, vote, border-crossing, and application registers into some computer. Simultaneous.

Product Description: The increasing influence of computers in modern societies has been seen by some as offering great promise for the future, but by others as menacing in the extreme. In this work, David Lyon investigates the validity of these two opposing points of view...read more