Our contemporary age is confronted by a profound contradiction: on the one hand, our lives as workers, consumers and citizens have become ever more monitored by new technologies. On the other, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable.
What does this technocratic ideology and surveillance-heavy culture reveal about the deeper reality of modern society? Monitored investigates the history and implications of this modern accountability paradox. Peter Bloom reveals pervasive monitoring practices which mask how at its heart, the elite remains socially and ethically out of control.
Challenging their exploitive 'accounting power', Bloom demands that the systems that administer our lives are oriented to social liberation and new ways of being in the world.
| ISBN: | 9780745338637 |
| Publication date: | 20th January 2019 |
| Author: | Peter Bloom |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Business ethics and social responsibility Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments Social media / social networking Algorithms and data structures Data capture and analysis |
Our contemporary age is confronted by a profound contradiction: on the one hand, our lives as workers, consumers and citizens have become ever more monitored by new technologies. On the other, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable.
What does this technocratic ideology and surveillance-heavy culture reveal about the deeper reality of modern society? Monitored investigates the history and implications of this modern accountability paradox. Peter Bloom reveals pervasive monitoring practices which mask how at its heart, the elite remains socially and ethically out of control.
Challenging their exploitive 'accounting power', Bloom demands that the systems that administer our lives are oriented to social liberation and new ways of being in the world.
Monitored features in the following genres: Business ethics and social responsibility, Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments, Social media / social networking, Algorithms and data structures, Data capture and analysis
Monitored is available in Ebook, Paperback, Hardback
Monitored was written by Peter Bloom and published by Pluto Press
Monitored has 256 pages
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