Pdf surveillance power and everyday life researchgate. David lyon born 1948 is a canadian professor of sociology surveillance society. Biometrics, identification and surveillance by david lyon. The pdf file you selected should load here if your web browser has a pdf reader plugin installed for example, a recent version of adobe acrobat reader if you would like more information about how to print, save, and work with pdfs, highwire press provides a helpful frequently asked questions about pdfs alternatively, you can download the pdf file directly to your computer, from where it.
Globalization and surveillance by david murakami wood 3. It is strongly recommended to all readers with an interest in the impact of information technology on our. Professor david lyon, queens university sociology, kingston kingston, ontario k7l 3n6, canada. This book gives an overview of current research on and developments in surveillance, including closed circuit tv and biometrics, illustrated by empirical examples. Surveillance culture, david lyon argues, is not detached from the surveillance state, society and economy. Surveillance, power and everyday life david lyon a chapter for the oxford handbook of information and communication technologies abstract surveillance has become a crucial component of all environments informed or enabled by icts. This book is about explaining surveillance processes and practices in contemporary society. David lyon is queens research chair in surveillance studies at queens university, canada and is. Surveillance drones the surveillance studies centre. When edward snowden began leaking nsa documents in june 20, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age.
The arrival of surveillance society is no longer in the future tense. One thing features more frequently than any other in discussions of contemporary surveillance. In the electronic eye, david lyon looks into our mediated way of life, where every transaction and phone call, bordercrossing, vote, and application registers in some computer, to show how electronic surveillance influences social order in our day. The snowden reader looks at snowdens disclosures and their aftermath. Drawing our attention away from orwellian models of big brother that emphasize the state as the key, and ominous, surveillance agent, lyon asks us to consider our own everyday practices as constitutive elements of the. It is used here with the permission of the author and the publisher. Bennett department of political science, university of victoria, victoria, british columbia, canada. David lyon, an english sociologist now teaching at queens university in kingston, has written extensively on the information society and the increasing surveillance inherent in the information age. Id cards, biometric surveillance and cctv in the city, paper for rc21,14.
Educated at the university of bradford in the uk, lyon has been studying surveillance since the mid1980s. Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. Pdf abstract surveillance has become,a crucial component,of all environments,informed or enabled by icts. Surveillance of young people on the internet by val steeves part iv. Isa world congress, brisbane, 12 july 2002, the international journal of urban and regional research 273. Surveillance society david lyon, queens university, canada talk for festival del diritto, piacenza, italia. Surveillance studies is a relatively new multidisciplinary enterprise that aims to understand who watches who, how the watched participate in and sometimes question their surveillance, why surveillance occurs, and with what effects. Although as a set of practices it is as old as history itself, systematic surveillance became a routine and inescapable part of everyday life in modern times and is now, more often than not, dependent on information and communication technologies icts. David lyon directs the surveillance studies centre, is a professor of sociology, holds a queens research chair and is crossappointed as a professor in the faculty of law at queens university in kingston, ontario born in edinburgh, scotland, lyon received a b. This has been called liquid surveillance bauman and lyon 20. Routledge handbook of surveillance studies 1st edition.
David lyon is director of the surveillance pr oject and. Surveillance, power and everyday life fundacja panoptykon. My point is rather that such societies are in part constituted by a surveillance dimension. Surveillance as social sorting proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary threat to individual freedom, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcing longterm social differences. The view each way david lyon, surveillance studies centre, queens university, canada research. The fast growth of the field of surveillance studies reflects both the urgency of civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is no longer merely a matter of deliberate, individual scrutiny and consequent fears for personal privacy. Surveillance is also an ambiguous process, the two faces of which must yet be seen in relation to each other. Zuboff states that surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Whether it is a massive new australian databank called the law enforcement access network lean, eventually intended to contain all of australias corporate data and landownership details and accessible to social security, taxation, and federal police departments, or a louisiana. The book takes in surveillance studies in all its breadth, from local facetoface oversight through technical developments. Pdf on jul 1, 2008, lippert randy published david lyon. She has spoken nationally and internationally on surveillance practice at work, and has appeared in the national media in.
Using the url or doi link below will ensure access to this page indefinitely. That surveillance has become ubiquitous and ordinary in our everyday lives is the starting point for david lyons the culture of surveillance. Article information, pdf download for david lyon, surveillance after snowden open epub. Such proliferating surveillance is encountered especially in the modern city, with its watchful cameras and the demand for plastic card id and eligibility checks. A comparison of the impact of protective and preservative. From big brother to electronic panopticon david lyon this is the text of chapter four of david lyons the electronic eye. David lyon the surveillance studies centre surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras.
He defines the surveillance society as one in which precise details of our. We ask david about technology, ethical questions and his views on the snowden affair. Article information, pdf download for david lyon, surveillance studies. David lyon is director of the surveillance studies centre and professor of sociology and professor of law at queens university, kingston, ontario. This book brings together some of the worlds leading surveillance. Equally, almost all surveillance practices in technologically. This is an introduction to crimmigration, surveillance and security threats, a special issue of the queens law journal featuring papers from a workshop the authors organized at queens in november 20. September 28 2008 what is the surveillance society.
Governance depends on identification but identification increasingly depends on biometrics. This book explores how data has acquired such an important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its uses in. David lyon on the rise of the surveillance state about. As practiced today, it is actually a form of social sorting a means of verifying identities but also of assessing. David lyon and emily smith, surveillance studies centre, queens universit. But it all seems so fluid, slippery, and hard to grasp. But the term surveillance society does have connotations that at least hint at possible negative consequences, in ways that unambiguously optimistic talk of information societies and knowledgebased economies does not.
Globalizing surveillance comparative and sociological perspectives. Technology, and is joint editor with david lyon, clive norris, steven graham, and david wood of surveillance in society, an online journal and webbased study resource. Surveillance, power and everyday life springerlink. Based on the work of david lyon 2010, i will explain how roma newcomers learn. Digital citizenship and surveillance surveillance culture. However, bauman never falls back on the work of one sole theorist, in this case. David lyons research, writing, and teaching interests revolve around major social transformations in the modern world. David lyon is a fellow of the royal society of canada who serves as director of the surveillance studies centre and professor of sociology and of law at queens university ontario. David lyon, surveillance after snowden, 2016 sage journals. By ciara brackenroche, david lyon, mark james mansour, adam molnar, alana saulnier and scott thompson summary in may 2014 an ottawa resident asked the city to investigate why a drone was buzzing round the neighbourhood. In this overview, david lyon, one of the pioneers of surveillance studies, fuses with aplomb classical debates and contemporary examples to provide the most accessible and uptodate introduction to surveillance available. Critical analyses by experts discuss the historical, political, legal, and ethical issues raised by the disclosures.
Surveillance grows constantly, especially in the countries of the global north. Pdf abstract surveillance has become,a crucial component,of all environments, informed or enabled by icts. It is an everyday experience, run by myriad agencies for multiple purposes and exempting no one. Haggerty and ericson, 2000 in consequence, the main interest of many studies has been directed at largescale publicly or. David lyon speaks on contemporary surveillance youtube. Lyon looks into our mediated way of life, where every transaction and phone call, border crossing, vote, and application. Surveillance as social sorting, edited by lyon, will be published by. Sean hier and josh greenbergs the surveillance studies reader, and david lyons surveillance studies.