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David Lyon
Queen's Research Chair in Sociology,
2007 Killam Research Fellow, and
Director of the Surveillance Project
My interest in internet studies stems from a long-term
project of trying to understand the technological aspects of social
transformation. This began with the critique of information society
theories (The Silicon Society, 1985; The Information Society: Issues
and Illusions, 1988), continued with a wide-ranging study of mainly
computer-assisted surveillance including the use of the internet
for processing personal data (The Electronic Eye, 1994; Surveillance
Society, 2001; Surveillance after September 11, 2003), and is currently
pursued a forthcoming book on Cyberspace, (2004), on the social
and cultural creation and consequences of the internet.
Email: David
Lyon
David
Lyon - Department of Sociology
The
Surveillance Project |
