Culture of Surveillance

David Lyon is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University, Canada.

‘A timely exposition of the surveillance imaginaries which run through the contemporary digital realm. Students, scholars, activists and the interested lay reader will find inspiration within its pages.’ Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews‘David Lyon holds up a mirror to our rapidly developing surveillance society. And if we look hard enough, we can see ourselves. Surveillance culture provides plenty of reasons for concern, but also, as he usefully argues, a possible resource for hope.’Mark Andrejevic, Pomona College"This book manages to be comprehensive and authoritative in approach, whilst providing a very convincing and accessible account of key shifts in technology and society that underpins the concept of surveillance culture. This makes it both an original and high-quality contribution to the field."Lina Dencik, Cardiff University, UK"The Culture of Surveillance provides a nuanced account of contemporary surveillance practices."Daniel Trottier, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands"David Lyon has long been a powerful witness to the corrosive consequences of contemporary surveillance. This latest work warns how digital modernity’s surveillance regimes insinuate themselves into our lives and shape the most intimate qualities of experience. Lyon explores the threat of normalization, calling for resilience and agency against such surveillance and suggesting alternatives. Once again, we are in his debt." Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School"Compelling… The Culture of Surveillance offers an unprecedented insight into how complex and consequential the monitoring of human action has truly become.”Ed Bryan, Social & Cultural Geography'Written in an accessible style, The Culture of Surveillance offers a neat and concise overview of a vast array of surveillance literature, distilled into an analysis of the emergent surveillance culture in surveillance capitalism.'Amanda Glasbeek, York University"In The Culture of Surveillance, David Lyon has provided a potential roadmap for the future of surveillance scholarship, and as such, the book may prove to be his most important and influential yet."Benjamin J. Goold, Surveillance & Society

• Introduction : Surveillance Culture Takes Shape 1 Part I: Culture in Context 271 Crucibles of Culture 29Part II: Cultural Currents 552 From Convenience to Compliance 573 From Novelty to Normalization 844 From Online to Onlife 113Part III: Co-creation: Culture, Ethics, Politics 1475 Total Transparency 1496 Hidden Hope 173Notes 198Select Bibliography 225Index 231