Exposed : desire and disobedience in the digital age

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Label

Exposed : desire and disobedience in the digital age

Title remainder

desire and disobedience in the digital age

Statement of responsibility

Bernard E. Harcourt

Creator

• Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-

Author

• Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963-

Subject

• Information technology -- Social aspects
• Informationstechnik
• Informationsteknik -- sociala aspekter
• Personlig integritet
• Privacy, Right of
• Privacy, Right of
• Privatsphäre
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies
• Soziale Software
• Övervakning
• Privatliv -- skydd
• Information technology -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this plus billions of communications daily. Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the private realm. Exposed offers a powerful critique of our new virtual transparence, revealing just how unfree we are becoming and how little we seem to care. Bernard Harcourt guides us through our new digital landscape, one that makes it so easy for others to monitor, profile, and shape our every desire. We are building what he calls the expository society--a platform for unprecedented levels of exhibition, watching, and influence that is reconfiguring our political relations and reshaping our notions of what it means to be an individual. We are not scandalized by this. To the contrary: we crave exposure and knowingly surrender our privacy and anonymity in order to tap into social networks and consumer convenience--or we give in ambivalently, despite our reservations. But we have arrived at a moment of reckoning. If we do not wish to be trapped in a steel mesh of wireless digits, we have a responsibility to do whatever we can to resist. Disobedience to a regime that relies on massive data mining can take many forms, from aggressively encrypting personal information to leaking government secrets, but all will require conviction and courage."--Publisher's description

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

303.48/33

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HM851

LC item number

.H3664 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography