Common Gaze

Surveillance and the Common Good

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Our political spheres are riven with micro-targeted political advertising that degrades the possibilities and incentive for shared, respectful debate. We are producers as well as consumers of data when we record our physical, and sometimes our spiritual, exercise on smartphone apps. The algorithms which identify us, granting us access to state and corporate provision, are not objective but often deeply discriminatory against people of colour and those lower on socio-economic scales. Offering a ground-breaking new perspective on one of the great concerns of our time, Eric Stoddart examines everyday surveillance in the light of concern for the common good. He reveals the urgent need to challenge data gathering and analysis that weakens the social fabric by dividing people into categories largely based on inferred characteristics, and interprets surveillance in relation to God’s preferential option for those who are poor. The Common Gaze is a call not only for revised surveillance but for better ways of understanding how God sees.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-01-30
Mått135 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagSCM Press
ISBN9780334060048

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Acknowledgements ixIntroduction xiPart 11. Surveillance as a Twenty-first-century Culture 32. The Common Gaze as a Twenty-first-century Imaginary 20Part 23. Influence: Hacking Citizens 454. Identity: Quantifying Yourself 945. Identification: Algorithms of Oppression and Liberation 141Part 36. Common Gazing as Public Practice 1977. Common Gazing as Church Practice 207Conclusion 218Afterword 220Bibliography 225Index of Biblical References 245Index 247

"In his excellent book The Common Gaze, Eric Stoddart raises crucial issues for us to understand the consequences of surveillance practices. Nowadays, and everywhere, humans are accustomed to surveillance, intertwined with people’s daily life. Stoddart enlightens norms, practices, values, and relations towards surveillance in society and church. A common gaze is both a threat and a foundation for safety and love. Stoddart gives a terrific contribution from a humane, Christian, and Biblical point of view."