Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People

Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People
ISBN-10
1317048121
ISBN-13
9781317048121
Category
Political Science
Pages
202
Language
English
Published
2016-08-05
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Emmeline Taylor, Tonya Rooney

Description

From birth to adulthood, children now find themselves navigating a network of surveillance devices that attempt to identify, quantify, sort and track their thoughts, movements and actions. This book is the first collection to focus exclusively on technological surveillance and young people. Organised around three key spheres of children’s day-to-day life: schooling, the self and social lives, this book chronicles the increasing surveillance that children, of all ages, are subject to. Numerous surveillance apparatus and tools are examined, including, but not limited to: mobile phones, surveillance cameras, online monitoring, GPS and RFID tracking and big data analytics. In addition to chronicling the steady rise of such surveillance practices, the chapters in this volume identify and problematise the consequences of technological surveillance from a range of multidisciplinary perspectives. Bringing together leading scholars working across diverse fields – including sociology, education, health, criminology, anthropology, philosophy, media and information technology – the collection highlights the significant socio-political and ethical implications of technological surveillance throughout childhood and youth.

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