Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data

by Peter Bloom

Book Overview

Our contemporary age is confronted by a profound contradiction: on the one hand, our lives as workers, consumers and citizens have become ever more monitored by new technologies. On the other, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable. What does this technocratic ideology and surveillance-heavy culture reveal about the deeper reality of modern society? Monitored investigates the history and implications of this modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745338623
• ISBN13: 9780745338620
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.8"