Liquid Surveillance by Zygmunt Bauman
A Conversation
The book argues that contemporary surveillance has become fluid and pervasive, shifting from rigid, centralized watchfulness to flexible, data-driven practices that follow people through mobile devices, transactions and online activity; instead of a single all-seeing authority, a diffuse network of public and private actors collects, analyzes and trades streams of personal information to anticipate, sort and influence behavior. It links this transformation to broader conditions of ‘liquid’ modern life—uncertainty, consumer choice and risk management—showing how individuals are both targets and participants in surveillance through self-exposure and data exchange. The authors warn that these dynamics erode privacy, concentrate power in algorithms and corporations, and produce new forms of social sorting and insecurity that existing laws and institutions struggle to manage.
- Published
- 2013
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 120-160
- Original Language
- English
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