Description: A chilling account of the trade off we are willing to make between interactive media technologies and the power of others to watch over--and control--us. This brave new world of electronic marketing and consumption actually lulls consumers into blissful ignorance of how that usage can be--and is being--monitored.
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"This is a book that everyone should read. Many other books have examined personal privacy in the digital world--among them, Solove's The Digital Person and O'Harrow's No Place to Hide--but Andrejevic's emphasis on individuals' complicity makes this a unique, compelling read. Lively, well written, and full of examples, this is an essential book that should lead to many interesting discussions."--Choice
"Eloquently structured and sharply argued. . . . Andrejevic challenges us to think carefully about the ways in which interactive technologies have been all-too-easily aligned with technological progress, democracy, free speech, and political emancipation and decides to probe the darker sides of digitization."--Cinema Journal
"A provocative and readable romp through the contemporary U.S. 'new media' landscape."--American Studies
"Few interactive stones are left unturned in a work that is not only well researched but also remarkably up-to-date, a feature undoubtedly difficult to accomplish given the incredibly rapid pace of technological change and function creep. This book will be of special interest to students and established scholars in surveillance studies and Foucault-inspired studies of governance, but also those in communication studies more broadly. While not showing an easy way out, since most of us are already within the 'digital enclosure, ' this book cannot help but be relevant to a popular readership as well."--Surveillance and Society