Firmin DeBrabander

Life after Privacy

Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society

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Produktbeschreibung

How do we adapt to the profound societal changes wrought by digital media? What do these changes mean for political freedom? This highly original study of digital behavior and the crisis in privacy will interest scholars and anyone concerned about the impact of technology and the future of democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781108811910
• ISBN-10: 1108811914
• Artikelnr.: 58812935

Autorenporträt

Firmin DeBrabander is Professor of Philosophy, Maryland Institute College of Art. He has written commentary pieces for a number of national publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, LA Times, Salon, Aeon, Chicago Tribune, and The New Republic. Professor DeBrabander is the author of Do Guns Make us Free? (2015), a philosophical and political critique of the guns rights movement.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Confessional Culture
2. Defenses of Privacy
3. Big Plans for Big Data
4. The Surveillance Economy
5. Privacy Past and Present
6. The Borderless, Vanishing Self
7. Autonomy and Political Freedom
8. Powerful Publics
Conclusion.