William G. Staples is professor of sociology and founding director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. He is author or editor of several books, including the Encyclopedia of Privacy and Castles of Our Consciousness, both CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, and Power, Profits, and Patriarchy, winner of an American Sociological Association Section Book Award.

This book is very well written. . . . It offers a fascinating chronicle of the rage to invent new forms of surveillance, as well as pithy conceptualizations that organize the empirical materials nicely. As such, it clearly meets Staples's stated goal of providing an accessible undergraduate textbook. (praise for previous edition)

• Preface to the Second Edition 1. Everyday Surveillance2. The Scaffold, the Penitentiary, And Beyond3. The Gaze and Its Compulsions 4. Bodily Intrusions5. WIRED.I.AM: The Digital Life 2.06. The Anatomy of Visibility EndnotesSelected ReferencesIndex About the Author

William G. Staples is professor of sociology and founding director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. He is author or editor of several books, including the Encyclopedia of Privacy and Castles of Our Consciousness, both CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, and Power, Profits, and Patriarchy, winner of an American Sociological Association Section Book Award.

This book is very well written. . . . It offers a fascinating chronicle of the rage to invent new forms of surveillance, as well as pithy conceptualizations that organize the empirical materials nicely. As such, it clearly meets Staples's stated goal of providing an accessible undergraduate textbook. (praise for previous edition)

• Preface to the Second Edition 1. Everyday Surveillance2. The Scaffold, the Penitentiary, And Beyond3. The Gaze and Its Compulsions 4. Bodily Intrusions5. WIRED.I.AM: The Digital Life 2.06. The Anatomy of Visibility EndnotesSelected ReferencesIndex About the Author