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Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability: A House of Mirrors

Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability: A House of Mirrors

Johnson, Deborah G.
Regan, Priscilla M.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138790737
ISBN13: 9781138790735
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 14 2014
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is seen as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed, transparency is often seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices and transparency practices together as parallel systems of accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework for understanding surveillance and transparency practices instrumented with information technology.

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