Windows into the Soul
Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Concepts: The Need for a Modest but Persistent Analyticity
1. Defining the Terms of Surveillance Studies
2. So What’s New? Classifying Means for Change and Continuity
3. So What’s Old? Classifying Goals for Continuity and Change
4. The Stuff of Surveillance: Varieties of Personal Information
Part 2: Social Processes
5. Social Processes in Surveillance
6. A Tack in the Shoe and Taking the Shoe Off: Resistance and Counters to Resistance
Part 3: Culture and Contexts
7. Work: The Omniscient Organization Measures Everything That Moves
8. Children: Slap That Baby’s Bottom, Embed That ID Chip, and Let It Begin
9. The Private within the Public: Psychological Report on Tom I. Voire
10. A Mood Apart: What’s Wrong with Tom?
11. Government and More: A Speech by Hon. Rocky Bottoms to the Society for the Advancement of Professional Surveillance
Part 4: Ethics and Policy
12. Techno-Fallacies of the Information Age
13. An Ethics for the New (and Old) Surveillance
14. Windows into Hearts and Souls: Clear, Tinted, or Opaque Today?
Appendix: A Note on Values: Neither Technophobe nor Technophile
Notes
References
Index
“A challenging, thoughtful, erudite and at times very entertaining book. It is a work that draws on Marx’s long experience, detailed empirical research and intense scholarship, but weaves these things together without the loss of coherence of narrative that so often dogs academic work. . . . The coverage is breathtakingly broad and the book is a long one, supplemented by additional material on Marx’s website. . . . Not only an important book but a necessary one.”
from sources ranging from Shakespeare to Superman. . . .Marx has proposed a laudable normative standard for democratic surveillance, much as Jurgen Habermas has developed one for democratic communication. They provide platforms for critics and activists to call out violations of democratic ideals.”
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
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Media Ecology Association: Erving Goffman Award
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Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Political Science: Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Sociology: Collective Behavior, Mass Communication | Criminology, Delinquency, Social Control | Social Institutions
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