Seeing Hazily (But Not Darkly) Through the Lens: Some Recent Empirical Studies of Surveillance Technologies |
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| Authors: | Gary T. Marx |
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| Affiliation: | Gary T. Marx is professor emeritus, MIT, and an electronic (garymarx.net), and occasionally itinerant, scholar. His most recent itinerancies have been in law and society programs and law schools at the University of Illinois, West Virginia University, University of Washington, University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern. He is author of the forthcoming Windows;Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology (University of Chicago). He is a founding member of the Scottsdale and Bainbridge Island Bike and Kayak Club. This review continues an interest in the complexities of social control that began when as a graduate student in a civil rights group (CORE), he learned that the treasurer who had absconded with the group's funds was also a police informer. That event radically contrasted with earlier positive experiences in a Boy Scout troop sponsored by the Los Angeles Police Department. He is very appreciative of the critical suggestions of Albrecht Funk, Jim Horning, and Karl Shoemaker and the editorial encouragement to write an essay rather than a book report. |
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