'surveillance' Tag

• Response: Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William Mitchell

  January 29, 2007

  In his book Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, William Mitchell describes how information technology – specifically digital, wireless networks which are accessed primarily through portable devices – fundamentally changes how we interact with others. More than anything else, “[c]onnectivity had become the defining characteristic of our twenty-first-century urban condition” (11). For Mitchell, [...]

  posted in Reviews and Responses by R. Stuart Geiger