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We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hackers-and the merely curious-to see. In Windows into the Soul, Gary T. Marx, a central figure in the rapidly expanding field of surveillance studies, argues that surveillance itself is neither good nor bad, but that context and comportment make it so.

In this landmark book, Marx sums up a lifetime of work on issues of surveillance and social control by disentangling and parsing the empirical richness of watching and being watched. Using fictional narratives as well as the findings of social science, Marx draws on decades of studies of covert policing, computer profiling, location and work monitoring, drug testing, caller identification, and much more, Marx gives us a conceptual language to understand the new realities and his work clearly emphasizes the paradoxes, trade-offs, and confusion enveloping the field. Windows into the Soul shows how surveillance can penetrate our social and personal lives in profound, and sometimes harrowing, ways. Ultimately, Marx argues, recognizing complexity and asking the right questions is essential to bringing light and accountability to the darker, more iniquitous corners of our emerging surveillance society.

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  • Title Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
  • Author Gary T. Marx
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 2016-05-31
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226285917 / 022628591X
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Technology - Social aspects, Electronic surveillance - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015037631
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

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About the author

Gary T. Marx is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Undercover: Police Surveillance in America. His writings have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New Republic.
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