Description: The corporate world is watching us, but why does no one watch them?
Brief description: Peter Bloom heads the People and Organisations Department at the Open University, UK, and is the co-founder of the Research Centre 'REEF'. His books include Digital Control: Surveillance and Power in the Age of Big Data (Pluto, 2019) and The CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life (Zed, 2018). His writing has featured in the Washington Post, Guardian, and New Statesman.
Review Quotes: ""'The data economy features surveillance which is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. This book is essential reading for those who wish to identify, resist and challenge the surveillance consequences of big data for the individual, for democracy and for society'"" - Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews ""'Monitored is the nonfiction equivalent of Orwell's 1984. In a terrifying account of the new age of surveillance, Bloom demonstrates how Big Brother is actually Big Data. Society has been fractured by data technologies under the crushing weight of the free market, yet Bloom convincingly argues that monitoring might be yielded to the purpose of radical change'"" - Simon Springer, author of 'The Discourse of Neoliberalism' and 'The Anarchist Roots of Geography' ""'A brisk and insightful guide to our world of increasingly ubiquitous surveillance that poses challenging questions about who is surveilled, who has privacy, and how we are being sold the chains to our own imprisonment'"" - Nick Srnicek, King's College London