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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463133303321

Titolo

Digital virtual consumption / / edited by Mike Molesworth and Janice Denegri-Knott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

0-203-11483-3

1-283-86211-5

1-136-29284-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; ; 23

Altri autori (Persone)

Denegri-KnottJanice <1977->

MolesworthMike

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Digital electronics - Social aspects

Technological innovations - Social aspects

Information society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Contexts and perspectives -- pt. II. Places and practices.

Sommario/riassunto

Digital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods. To these activities we can add those taking place in virtual communities of consumption, online shops, brand websites, and online auction houses that together amount to a vast new landscape of consumption. Digital virtual consumption motivates concatenated practices which produce meaningful experience for their users as well as market opportunities to profit from them. Consumers create and maintain elaborate wish lists, engaging with simula



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792313203321

Titolo

Surveillance and democracy / / edited by Kevin D. Haggerty and Minas Samatas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-97450-4

1-136-97451-2

1-282-73331-1

9786612733314

0-203-85215-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

A Glasshouse book

Altri autori (Persone)

HaggertyKevin D

SamatasMinas

Disciplina

323.44/82

Soggetti

Democracy

Electronic surveillance - Social aspects

Social control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Surveillance and democracy: an unsettled relationship; Part I: Theorizing surveillance and democracy; Chapter 1: Surveillance and transparency as sociotechnical systems of accountability; Chapter 2: Identification, surveillance and democracy; Chapter 3: Democracy and its visibilities; Chapter 4: Periopticon: control beyond freedom and coercion - and two possible advancements in the social sciences; Part II: Surveillance policies and practices of democratic governance

Chapter 5: Surveillance as governance: Social inequality and the pursuit of democratic surveillanceChapter 6: Democracy, surveillance and "knowing what's good for you": The private sector origins of profiling and the birth of "Citizen Relationship Management"; Chapter 7: The impact of communications data retention on fundamental rights and democracy - the case of the EU Data Retention Directive; Chapter 8: "Full Spectrum Dominance" as European Union Security Policy: On the



trail of the "NeoConOpticon"; Part III: Case studies in the dynamics of surveillance and democracy

Chapter 9: A trans-systemic surveillance: The legacy of communist surveillance in the digital ageChapter 10: Balancing public safety and security demands with civil liberties in a new constitutional democracy: The case of post-1994 South Africa and the growth of residential security and surveilla; Chapter 11: The Greek Olympic phone tapping scandal: A defenceless state and a weak democracy; Chapter 12: Surveillance and democracy in the digital enclosure; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11 surveillance developments shaped democratic processes? As surveillance measures are increasingly justified in terms of national security, is there the prospect that a shadow ""security state"" will emerge? How might new surveillance measures alter the conceptions of citizens and citizenship which are at the