{"product_id":"transparency-and-surveillance-as-sociotechnical-accountability-a-house-of-mirrors-9781138790735","title":"Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability: A House of Mirrors","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Deborah G. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed, transparency is often seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices and transparency practices together as parallel systems of accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework for understanding surveillance and transparency practices instrumented with information technology. The volume centers around five case studies: Campaign Finance Disclosure, Secure Flight, American Red Cross, Google, and Facebook. A series of themed chapters draw on the material and provide cross-case analysis. The volume ends with a chapter on policy implications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45236678459543,"sku":"9781138790735","price":13281.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138790735.webp?v=1769214002","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/transparency-and-surveillance-as-sociotechnical-accountability-a-house-of-mirrors-9781138790735","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}