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Mass Surveillance In Popular Culture
Mass surveillance in popular culture is a common theme. There are numerous novels, nonfiction books, films, TV shows, and video games, all taking a critical view of surveillance. Some well known examples include George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1948), Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' (2001–2003), and Christopher Nolan's film The Dark Knight, ''The Dark Knight'' (2008). However, there are also a few novels that are optimistic about surveillance. Critical of mass surveillance Novels and novellas * ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', a novel by George Orwell depicting life under an omnipresent Totalitarianism, totalitarian state, and is probably the most prominent of the media listed; the 'Big Brother (1984), Big Brother' who watches over the novel's characters is now used to describe any form of spying on or interfering with the public, such as CCTV cameras. *''We (novel), We'', a 1920 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as closed-circuit television (CCTV), or interception of electronically transmitted information like Internet traffic. It can also include simple technical methods, such as Human intelligence (intelligence gathering), human intelligence gathering and postal interception. Surveillance is used by citizens for protecting their neighborhoods. And by governments for intelligence gathering - including espionage, prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or the investigation of crime. It is also used by criminal organizations to plan and commit crimes, and by businesses to Industrial espionage, gather intelligence on criminals, their competitors, suppliers or customers. Religious organisations charged with detecting he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
