Power, knowledge, and the subjects of privacy: Understanding privacy as the ally of surveillance

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1250-1263

  Coll, Sami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Big Data; Biopower; Foucault; Loyalty programmes; Sociology; Surveillance privacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900894491     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.918636     Document Type: Article

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