Political geographies of surveillance

摘要

Information technologies have permeated many different domains of human activity, leading scholars and commentators alike to declare the present era an information age (Lyon, 1988; Webster, 1995; Castells, 1996, 1997, 1998). Whilst the meaning and adequacy of the term are matters for discussion (Castells, 2000, p. 10; Webster, 2002), the prevalence of information generation and processing in the present-day world is scarcely open to dispute (see for example Lefebvre, 2005).