Table of Contents

Contents: Critical Social Theory – Critical Media and Communication Studies – Critical Surveillance Studies – Panopticon – Karl Marx – Michel Foucault – Political Economy of Surveillance – Political Economy of the Internet – Workplace Surveillance – Pre-Employment Screening – Intellectual Property Surveillance – Consumer Surveillance.

About the Author

Thomas Allmer studied Media and Communication at the University of Salzburg and the Victoria University of Melbourne. He is a research associate in the project «Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society», funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and a member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group Austria).